Updated at 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 21
One man is dead and another has been charged with murder and manslaughter after a family fight turned deadly.
According to a Wednesday morning release from the Anchorage Police Department, law enforcement was alerted just before 10 p.m. Tuesday to a domestic disturbance on the 5400 block of Camelot Drive, near Lionheart Drive and Boniface Parkway.
The woman who called police said her husband had pointed a gun at her head. The man, identified by APD as 31-year-old Tino Faualo, had been fighting with his wife earlier that evening.
Police say the woman then called and told her father, 55-year-old Valu Valu Jr., who drove to the couple’s home to confront Faualo.
The two men met in the driveway, APD wrote.
“Moments later, a witness called police stating that shots had been fired outside,” police wrote.
Police blocked off the area near the 5400 block of Camelot Drive early Wednesday morning during an hours-long investigation into the incident.
Charging documents state that at some point during the argument, Valu took out a gun and shot Faualo from inside his vehicle. APD stated that the 31-year-old was then driven away from the scene by a friend.
Nearly 30 minutes after the first call, a local hospital contacted APD saying they had admitted a man — Faualo — who had been shot in the chest. He later died at the hospital, according to police.
The vehicle used to take Faualo to the hospital had a damaged rear window “show inward,” police noted in charging documents. That vehicle was impounded as evidence.
In an interview with police, Valu stated he knew of at least one other instance where Faualo pointed a gun at his wife’s head and other domestic violence, charging documents show. While Valu admitted he wanted to slap or punch Faualo, he denied shooting him.
Police also noted in charging documents that Valu said he didn’t see Faualo with a gun, so “he wasn’t in fear for his own safety.”
Valu is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, misconduct involving weapons and tampering with evidence. He was taken to the Anchorage Correctional Complex.
The homicide is the 30th in Anchorage this year, breaking the previous record of homicides in a single year. Twenty-nine homicides were investigated in 1995.
This is a developing story; please check back for updates.
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