Few additional details have emerged this week about a Butte home invasion in which an Anchorage man is accused of attempted murder, but the suspect has been linked to a year-long series of robberies and thefts in Alaska's largest city.
Anchorage police say one of those cases involves 22-year-old Shyheim Chavis robbing a man at gunpoint just hours after the home invasion.
Alaska State Troopers said last week that Chavis is believed to be one of two people who entered a Butte home on Plumley Road at about 1 a.m. July 21. When the home's owner confronted the intruders with a gun, troopers said Chavis shot the man in the arm, sending him to a local hospital.
Wasilla police didn't find any suspects immediately after the incident, but Chavis was later taken into custody and indicted by a Palmer grand jury on charges including attempted murder, assault, burglary and robbery.
Palmer District Attorney Roman Kalytiak said in an email Friday that additional charges against more suspects in the case are possible.
"The investigation into other suspects (regarding) the Butte robbery is ongoing, and we are also waiting for some lab analysis," Kalytiak wrote. "Depending on lab results and other developments, I may be looking at indicting other people."
Because Chavis was charged in the home invasion by indictment, no detailed charging document was on file this week in Palmer court.
Charging documents against Chavis are available, however, in several open Anchorage cases of felony robbery and theft. In one of them, Anchorage police said they responded at about 1:15 p.m. July 21 — the same day as the Butte home invasion — to a robbery in an apartment on the 3000 block of Peterkin Avenue.
"(The victim) reported that he'd gone to the address to buy a cellphone in response to an ad on Craigslist," police wrote. "At the apartment the suspect produced a gun described as a .357 revolver, pointed it at the complainant's face, and took $440 from him."
After being robbed, the victim ran from the apartment and called police. Officers said the phone number associated with the Craigslist ad was linked to Chavis, whom the victim subsequently identified as the robber from a photo lineup.
Here's what police say in documents concerning the other open cases involving Chavis:
On July 19, 2015, a woman told police that a man snatched an iPhone out of her hand, then ran away, as she was paying a parking ticket at the Anchorage 5th Avenue mall. The victim later identified Chavis as the thief in a photo lineup.
On Aug. 13, 2015, staff at the Muldoon Sports Authority store reported a theft case against Chavis, who was working there at the time. Two surveillance videos showed Chavis putting a total of $1,600 in goods into his backpack, then leaving.
On April 15, Chavis visited an Eagle River store on the Old Glenn Highway to request a job application, then stole the owner's iPhone and a wallet containing about $300 in cash off a countertop. He later sold the phone at another store.
Court records show Chavis was arraigned in the Butte attempted-murder case on Monday, pending a trial set to begin on the week of Dec. 5. He is being held on $500,000 cash bail, with a court-approved third-party custodian required for his release.
Reporter Zaz Hollander contributed information to this story.