25-year-old Mickee Thompson of Anchorage was sentenced on Jan. 10, 2025, by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Ramgren for the murder of Sosaia Finau on April 12, 2018. Thompson was convicted of First-Degree Murder by an Anchorage jury in February 2024.
At trial, the evidence showed that Thompson and Robert Smith showed up uninvited at the apartment of Thompson’s former girlfriend who had begun seeing Finau. Thompson and Smith left without incident but returned to the apartment to retrieve Thompson’s son. After a verbal dispute over car keys, Thompson fired his 9 mm firearm 17 times at Finau. As Thompson was leaving the apartment, Smith entered and fired seven more shots at Finau.
Finau died as a result of his injuries before police arrived minutes later…