Trevor Stefano, the man who police say shot a man at a Government Hill home on Wednesday, had been released from prison in 2018, after having served time for a drug-related murder he committed in Spenard in 2006 when he was 19 years old.
Stefano has been now charged with attempted murder, first- and third-degree assault, and misconduct involving weapons in the shooting in which he used a pistol to gun down an Anchorage lawyer at his home, which also serves as the lawyer’s office. The lawyer survived but was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds.
Stefano, born Dec. 7, 1986, is now 38. After the Department of Corrections decided he was making good progress on his rehabilitation, he was released from prison in Fairbanks after serving 12 years of a 40-year sentence (15 suspended), and was ordered to wear an ankle monitor for the rest of his sentence.
He got married and moved to Anchorage, where, in July of 2019, he was arrested for domestic violence and was found to be in contact with felons, including his brother, in violation of his ankle monitor agreement.
Read all about his first murder conviction and release at this link.
“Stefano manipulated and directed the victim to request the charge be dropped. The victim indicated that what she had told the police was true and she was fearful of him and worried that he would kill her or have her killed,” the court record shows. He later was divorced.
“Stefano appealed his termination from electronic monitoring. His appeal was denied by a probation officer, who explained that: (1) Stefano had been given permission to have only telephonic contact, not in-person contact, with his brother Connor; and (2) although the domestic violence charges were dismissed, the officer had heard Stefano’s ‘inappropriate statements to [his] wife’”’ in the recorded calls from prison,” the record shows at the detailed case description at FindLaw.com.
Stefano has additional court records with the state, some involving protective orders.
According to reports, one of the Wednesday victims in the house on Government Hill said she had dated Stefano briefly and said he was stalking her. She was grazed by one of his bullets but needed no hospitalization.
Stefano, who was stopped by a volley of police bullets, and the lawyer he is accused of shooting were both critically injured and required complex surgeries.
