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Two Suspects in Fatal Home Invasion Charged with Manslaughter

December 16, 2011|By Chris Klint | KTUU.com

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two suspects in a Muldoon home-invasion robbery last month that left two men dead are facing charges including manslaughter, according to Anchorage police.

APD spokesperson Marlene Lammers says Brian Pfister, 19, and Ursula Pico, 21, were indicted by a grand jury Thursday for manslaughter, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary. Pico was also indicted for evidence tampering, after allegedly attempting to hide the group’s getaway car.

Maurice T.R. Johnson and Joseph Trantham, both 19, were killed in the early hours of Nov. 10 on the 700 block of Muldoon Road, when 55-year-old Larry James said they entered his house armed, hit him in the face and led him to a bedroom to open a safe. James produced a handgun and shot both men, who fled the home but died outside.

Police say Pfister was a third robber posted outside who fled the scene, while Pico was a getaway driver. The two were taken into custody shortly after the robbery, although Pico was mistakenly granted bail but turned herself in shortly afterward.

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“The grand jury alleged that Pfister and Pico were criminally responsible for the death of their own accomplices because they agreed together to engage in a home invasion robbery, where gunplay and death or serious injury was reasonably foreseeable,” Lammers wrote in a press release.

Pfister and Pico are scheduled to be arraigned Monday afternoon.

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