Suspect in custody after shooting 3 people in Anchorage, including an officer, police say

Anchorage constabulary and different rule enforcement vehicles parked adjacent Muldoon Road and 6th Avenue arsenic officers responded to a fishy barricaded into a location connected Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)

Three people, including a constabulary officer, were changeable and injured Monday greeting pursuing a confrontation successful an East Anchorage park.

Police person a fishy successful custody. They opportunity aft nan shooting he barricaded himself successful a Muldoon mobile home. The standoff lasted for hours, until 5:30 p.m. It drew a awesome consequence from rule enforcement, including SWAT teams from nan Anchorage constabulary and nan authorities troopers, and a trooper helicopter.

Students astatine East Anchorage schools were not released astatine nan extremity of nan schoolhouse day. The lawman main of Anchorage schools, Kersten Johnson-Struempler, said students were safe astatine each times.

“When it became evident that nan business was going to past longer than nan schoolhouse merchandise time, we notified families that were affected astatine Creekside Elementary and Muldoon Elementary that they would request to travel to nan schoolhouse and prime up their students truthful that they would beryllium safe and not stepping successful nan neighborhood,” she said astatine a news conference.

The schoolhouse territory extended nan petition to parents of Begich Middle School and Bartlett High School. A fewer students and unit were still astatine schoolhouse aft 5 p.m., she said.

Anchorage Police Sean Case said each 3 group changeable Monday were expected to survive. He said nan incident began soon aft 11 a.m. erstwhile constabulary were called to nan parking batch of Creekside Park.

“Officers located an big antheral and an big female, some of which were victims of gunshot wounds to nan precocious body, some are transported to a section infirmary pinch non life-threatening injuries. With nan thief of citizens, officers located nan fishy successful a adjacent trailer parkland astatine nan 700 artifact of Muldoon Road,” he said. “The big antheral fishy fired astatine police, striking 1 constabulary serviceman successful nan little leg.”

Case said location was nary known narration betwixt nan victims and nan suspect.

Shortly aft nan news conference, constabulary posted a brief update online saying nan fishy was successful custody and would beryllium taken successful for questioning.