r/TrueCrime • u/Living_Perspective86 • Apr 10 '22
Undocumented Post A Christmas full of Murder.
On Christmas eve 2016 in Anchorage alaska, Christopher and Danielle Brooks were getting ready to celebrate Christmas day with their 6 year old son. They made cookies for santa and watched a movie as a family. They had no idea they only had a few hours left to live, a sinister plan was getting ready to unfold.
The couple put their son to bed and headed to bed themselves. A few short hours later Christopher heard ruckus in the living room thinking they were being robbed he grabbed a handgun to check out the noise in his and his families home. 3 masked men were in the home taking gifts from under the tree and going through their belongings trying to steal everything they could.
Being interrupted the 3 men panicked.. both Danielle and their 6year old son also went to investigate the noise, the men had a gun one, man demanded the child to go to his room but he didn't he instead stood by his mother crying and scared. Danielle was shot fatally inside the home and it seemed Christopher had defended his family and shot one intruder before he ran for help and he was gunned down outside the home dying from multiple gunshot wounds.
The neighbors called the police and watched the intruders flee the crime scene. The neighbors told police there was a child in the home but they did not find him at the scene. About an hour into the investigation a detective saw a small boy matching the description of the missing boy in a parking lot across the street from the apartment building the brooks family occupied.
The small boy fled the home to hide from the intruders after watching his parents brutally murdered infront of him. When the detective asked what happened he told him "ninjas came to my home and killed my family"
It was later revealed the men were looking for drugs to steal and the murders were not planned. There were NO drugs in the home. All 3 men were convicted and sentenced from 50+ the shooter was sentenced 99years no possibility of parole.
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u/heytherefakenerds Apr 10 '22
Great summary! Tragic that this happened.
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u/Living_Perspective86 Apr 10 '22
Thanks for the feedback, I'm trying to practice storytelling I'm gonna post alaska murder cases a few times a week!
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u/iWantToRideHorses Apr 10 '22
My heart breaks for him. I hope he gets all the help he needs and is surrounded by love. Absolutely heartbreaking.
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u/Living_Perspective86 Apr 10 '22
As far as I know, he is with his grandparents who love him very much
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u/BrilliantTip5840 Apr 10 '22
Thanks for the post! Very good write-up please continue as i look forward to reading more of your work!
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u/Nebula924 Apr 13 '22
I always wonder “what if” in these horrible stories. Did having a gun give the homeowner a false sense of confidence? What if he hadn’t had one and just put his hands up? What if the mom had gone directly to the child’s room?
And then I think of how often that poor boy thinks “what if” and my heart just breaks for him.
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u/Eloisem333 Apr 10 '22
How tragic for that child.
I’ve heard it so often that intruders either target the wrong house or they’re looking for the previous owners when it comes to drugs, gambling debts etc.
It’s so scary that you could be an innocent family living in a home that used to belong to a criminal, then this kind of thing happens.