Update: Anchorage police have charged Talon Draper, 19, with one count of first-degree assault for allegedly shooting 22-year-old Jermaine Twiley Tuesday morning.
According to a statement from the Anchorage Police Department, Draper said he grabbed his rifle when he heard a “serious physical altercation” going on in the apartment next door. When Draper opened the door to his apartment and saw Twiley running past, he allegedly told him to stop, then shot him in the head with the rifle when Twiley appeared to reach down with his hands.
Police said they had responded to multiple calls of a disturbance between Twiley and a woman in the Mountain View apartment building earlier that evening, but when they arrived at the residence, both people were “uncooperative” and no charges were filed.
ANCHORAGE - A man is fighting for his life after a neighbor shot him in Mountain View early Tuesday morning.
It happened in the 3400 block of Thompson Avenue around 1 a.m., said Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Castro.
The suspect told police that he thought the victim was acting suspiciously and that’s why he shot him, she said. The victim was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
APD had responded to a disturbance call an hour prior to the shooting at the same apartment building, police said.
Castro said a man involved in the first call was the one shot by the suspect, who is the victim’s neighbor.
A man walking past the apartment building Tuesday morning said he heard a woman scream, ‘Stop! Stop!’ repeatedly before the shooting. He also said he had lived in the apartment building where the shooting occurred, and the news of this shooting didn’t come as a surprise.