Crime & Justice

Police locate 'person of interest' in East Anchorage homicide

A man was killed and a woman critically injured in East Anchorage early Sunday, and Anchorage police are calling the man's death a homicide.

No charges had been filed in the incident, but a person of interest in the case contacted police and was being interviewed by detectives Sunday night.

According to a press release from the Anchorage Police Department, officers were called to a residence in the vicinity of the 3000 block of Penland Parkway around 3:30 a.m. When they arrived, they found a man dead and a woman with life-threatening injuries, who was taken to a nearby hospital.

She remained in critical condition Sunday night.

Police declined to say what prompted the initial response to the home, or the nature of the victims' injuries.

Sunday night, police said they made contact with 40-year-old Alvin Rodriguez-Moya, a man whom officials described earlier in the day as a person of interest in the case and warned citizens was considered armed and dangerous.

According to APD spokeswoman Jennifer Castro, Rodriguez-Moya contacted police "around the same time a citizen reported seeing him in East Anchorage."

Detectives were interviewing him late Sunday.

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