{"id":3666,"date":"2016-06-27T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/north-pole-man-pleads-guilty-to-first-degree-murder\/"},"modified":"2016-06-27T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:00:49","slug":"north-pole-man-pleads-guilty-to-first-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/north-pole-man-pleads-guilty-to-first-degree-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"North Pole man pleads guilty to first-degree murder"},"content":{"rendered":"
FAIRBANKS \u2014 A 42-year-old North Pole resident suspected of shooting an Anchorage man to death last year at a North Pole home has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.<\/p>\n
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Matthew Burton Davis entered the plea Thursday in Fairbanks Superior Court in the death of 34-year-old John Adam Chilcote.<\/p>\n
Chilcote was staying with a woman at the North Pole home on Feb. 9, 2015.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say Davis that day sent text messages to the woman, threatening to kill Chilcote.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say Davis that night broke into the home and shot Chilcote with a handgun.<\/p>\n
Davis summoned his brother afterward, said he had shot someone and turned himself into North Pole police.<\/p>\n
A sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"