An Anchorage man is accused of stabbing and severely injuring a guest at his home early Monday, during a fight in which police say he also hit the victim with other household objects.
Court records show Kevin McLain Dyer, 23, is charged with first-degree attempted murder and assault. A charging document in the case said police learned of the stabbing, on the 3100 block of Tarwater Avenue just east of Tyson Elementary School, around 1:40 a.m. Monday.
Anchorage Police Department spokesperson Renee Oistad said both Dyer and the victim were hospitalized following the fight. Officers found the victim at a home on the 3200 block of Peterkin Avenue.
"The victim managed to escape and run away," Oistad wrote in an email. "He stopped at Peterkin and began banging on doors and windows to get help."
Police spoke with the victim, who "was covered in blood and bleeding from multiple cuts to the neck" according to the court document. He told them he had stayed at Dyer's home over the weekend.
Before the victim fell asleep Sunday evening, he saw Dyer smoking methamphetamine, the document says; shortly afterward, he "was awakened by Dyer asking him a question."
"(The victim) saw that Dyer had a knife and he indicated to officers that Dyer just started stabbing him," prosecutors wrote. "(He) reported that he fought back against Dyer but that Dyer also struck him with a broken table and chair."
Prosecutors said the victim stabbed Dyer with a small knife during the fight, but suffered a crushed trachea as well as puncture wounds.
The charging document said when police spoke with Dyer, he told them he stabbed the other man because "he sensed (the victim) was going to stab him first."
Police served an arrest warrant on Dyer at the hospital Tuesday, Oistad said; court records show he was arraigned Wednesday. A statewide inmate database showed him in custody at the Anchorage Correctional Complex Thursday morning.