Last Updated Friday, April 17 at 4:35 PM
Two people were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries and a man is in custody after stabbings at an Anchorage home Friday morning, police say.
Friday afternoon, Martin Victor IV, 40, was charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder and two counts of first-degree assault, according to an online statement from police.
The Anchorage Police Department received a call about a “disturbance” at a residence on the 1600 block of Medfra Street, located in Fairview, around 9:15 a.m., according to a statement from APD spokeswoman Jennifer Castro.
The two victims — a man and a woman — are a couple, Castro said Friday afternoon. They are reportedly stable after suffering “severe injuries,” according to APD.
Castro could not go into specifics about the relationship between Victor and the couple, but she said it’s her understanding they all lived in the home together.
Neighbor Savanah Fielding said she was sitting in her car when she saw a woman in a nightgown run up to the home where the incident is believed to have occurred.
“And it was just odd because she was in a nightgown and I’ve never seen her before,” Fielding said.
Then, Fielding said, the woman and a male exited the home. The male asked a female at a nearby bus stop if she had a phone and if she could call 911, Fielding said.
The cops showed up a few minutes later, but not before Fielding said she saw a person dart out of the home.
Victor was taken into custody without incident, Castro said. Police are still determining what led up to the stabbings, but it does not appear that drugs or alcohol were factors.
Editor’s note: An initial release from police misspelled the name of the suspect in this case. An earlier version of this story included that error, which has since been corrected.