Anchorage police shoot, wound man in Bragaw Street encounter

A constabulary vehicles emergency lights flash bluish and red. (Valerie Lake / Alaska Public Media)

Anchorage constabulary changeable and wounded a man adjacent an East Anchorage shopping area, according to a constabulary statement early Monday.

Few specifications were disposable successful nan statement, issued astatine 5:15 a.m. Monday. But constabulary said respective business parking tons on Bragaw Street had been closed some northbound and southbound of its intersection pinch DeBarr Road, wherever it passes a Costco warehouse.

“No officers were injured,” constabulary said successful nan statement. “The big antheral fishy has been transported to nan infirmary for curen of his injuries; nan severity is presently unknown.”

Police planned to clasp a news convention connected nan shooting later Monday morning.

The man is nan 5th personification changeable by Anchorage constabulary since mid-May. Three of those group have died.

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