A teenager was charged with assault after stabbing his mother’s boyfriend in the Tikahtnu theater lobby late Thursday night, officials say.
The Anchorage Police Department took the 13-year-old boy into custody and charged him with second-degree assault, according to a statement from APD spokeswoman Jennifer Castro. He was taken to McLaughlin Youth Center.
The man — who suffered a single stab wound on his back from a knife — was hospitalized and is in stable condition.
The stabbing happened after the man and the teen’s mother got into a “verbal and physical” fight in the lobby, according to Castro.
“During the altercation, the female’s son, a 13-year-old male, approached the adult male and stabbed him the back,” Castro wrote. APD responded to the reported stabbing just before 11 p.m.
When asked if the man or woman are facing changes, Castro said the case is still under investigation.
