A 19-year-old woman jumped from a second-story window after being shot in the head in an attempt to escape from a man who later led authorities on a manhunt in Mountain View, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in district court.
Christian Beier, 21, faces two counts of attempted murder, two counts of first-degree assault, and one count each of first-degree burglary and fourth-degree weapons misconduct in a case that left two people injured and led to an hour-and-half-long lockdown of one of Anchorage's largest hospitals late Friday.
Beier appeared in court Sunday before Magistrate Michael Smith, wearing a red prison jumpsuit and a bandage on his left arm. He was escorted into the courtroom by two judicial services officers. Beier's family sat in the front row, his mother and sister crying as he was arraigned.
His hands cuffed, Beier wiped away tears of his own on the shoulders of his prison uniform.
Smith entered a plea of not guilty to all charges on Beier's behalf. Beier said he would be able to afford a defense attorney.
Smith also denied Beier the opportunity to post bail in the case.
"For now, there will be no bail," Smith said.
Beier was arrested Saturday after leading authorities on a chase down the Glenn Highway, then ditching his vehicle and running into the woods near Anchorage's Mountain View neighborhood, police said. He was bitten by a police dog and arrested shortly before 1 p.m., in a manhunt that also involved security from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and a trooper helicopter searching from above.
Police had previously described the events that led to Friday's shooting as a domestic violence incident.
Shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, a man called 911 and said he'd found a woman walking down N Street in downtown Anchorage with a bloody towel wrapped around her head and a black eye.
The woman told the caller that "the suspect had a gun but didn't think she was shot," according to an affidavit from Anchorage Police Department Detective David Cordie.
APD officers and medics arrived at the scene, and the woman pointed to a house on the corner of N Street and Sixth Avenue as the location of the shooting.
The female victim told responders she had "bailed out of an upstairs window to get out of the residence," the complaint says. She was taken to Providence Hospital for treatment of what the complaint described as a "perforating" gunshot wound to the head. She was listed in serious condition Sunday.
Police went to the house on the corner, and "before they could make entry, the front door opened and a male ... stumbled outside," the affidavit said.
The 17-year-old male "was covered in blood" and collapsed, Cordie said. He had been shot in the head once and twice in the torso.
The male victim was also transported to Providence, and taken into surgery. He was listed in critical condition Sunday.
Police entered the home and found it "in disarray," Cordie said. They found spent shell casings in both the living room and an upstairs bedroom, as well as blood.
The woman told police she and the 17-year-old were in a "dating relationship," but that Beier had recently been hitting on her. Beier had been at the home earlier in the day, the affidavit said, but left earlier in the evening. The woman said that she and the male victim had been upstairs when Beier tried to get into the residence, the affidavit said.
The 17-year-old went downstairs and the woman heard two shots, the affidavit said.
"The next thing she knew Christian was up stairs and looking at her and she didn't know if she had been shot or if she got hit with the gun," the affidavit said. There was no one else in the house by the time police arrived.
Police confirmed on Facebook that Beier and the male victim were friends.
A post early Saturday on Beier's Facebook page identified the male victim by first name and said he "got what he deserved."
"Im a wanted fugitive and a felon now. Oh well!" the post said, and ended with three gun emojis. The post had been deleted or hidden by Sunday.