Anchorage police shot and wounded a man near an East Anchorage shopping area, according to a police statement early Monday.
Few additional details were immediately available. Police issued the brief statement around 5:15 a.m. Monday, and held a news conference at 9 a.m.
“No officers were injured,” police said in the statement. “The adult male suspect has been transported to the hospital for treatment of his injuries; the severity is currently unknown.”
The man is the fifth person shot by Anchorage police since mid-May. Three of those people have died.
According to the statement on Monday, several business parking lots along Bragaw Street have been closed south of its intersection with DeBarr Road, where it passes a Costco warehouse.
On Monday morning, about a dozen police vehicles including the department’s crime-scene RV were on Bragaw’s east side along several blocks south of DeBarr, spanning from a gas station just south of the intersection to a strip mall housing several restaurants near East 16th Avenue. A series of evidence markers were visible on the ground outside one of the restaurants.
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