Juneau police officers responding to the report of a stabbing Tuesday morning arrived to find a woman with a knife sticking out of the side of her head and stab wounds to her back.
The Juneau Police Department said in a statement that the call about the stabbing at an apartment complex on the 9100 block of Cinema Drive came in at about 1:35 a.m. Tuesday.
Once at the home, officers found the 37-year-old victim, according to the statement.
Investigators determined a 26-year-old man from Juneau attacked the woman with a knife. During the attack, a second woman was struck in the face by the same assailant, police said. He has yet to be formally charged.
Police did not immediately return a call for additional information.
Officers' initial search of the area around Cinema Drive did not locate the suspect.
Medics took both women involved in the alleged assault to Bartlett Regional Hospital for treatment. The woman who had been stabbed was later flown to Anchorage, police said.
Residents on Cinema Drive reported to police nearly four hours later that the stabbing suspect had returned to the apartment complex, police said. Officers went to the building and arrested the man within minutes, they said.
The suspect goes unnamed in the police department's statement as he has not been charged. Detectives are working closely with the Juneau district attorney's office to file charges, police said.
The investigation into the stabbing continues, but police said drugs and alcohol appear to have contributed.