A 23-year-old Anchorage man who killed a 19-year-old woman in 2011 at a psychiatric living facility will be sentenced Friday in Superior Court. The sentencing comes three months after Michael McEvoy changed his plea to guilty for the 2011 shooting.
McEvoy was charged with shooting and killing Mozelle Nalan at Soteria House, a temporary housing facility for people experiencing mental distress or crisis, in June 2011. The female teen was a volunteer in training at the facility who had been living there nearly a year at the time of the shooting.
According to charging documents, McEvoy previously lived at the psychiatric facility. He shot Nalan multiple times in the head and neck. McEvoy was originally charged with attempted murder and assault, but the charges were elevated to first- and second-degree murder when the girl died weeks later.
State prosecutors told KTUU in August that McEvoy wanted to plead guilty for more than a year, but they were unwilling to negotiate the charges until the victim's mother contacted them and indicated a willingness on the family's part to end the case.
Attorneys said additional charges of assault were dropped as part of a plea deal.
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