UPDATE 8:45 a.m. Monday:
Anchorage police said Monday the suspect, Frankie Warner-Willhoit, 22, was charged with assault and was also arrested for an outstanding felony warrant.
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Original story:
Anchorage police are investigating a stabbing involving a knife and sword at the 5th Avenue Mall on Sunday evening.
According to police, two men, who appeared to know each other, got into an argument in the mall’s food court. Mall security separated the two, and escorted one of them out of the mall. But he returned to the food court, and the fight continued, police said.
At that point, police say, the man who had remained at the food court drew a knife and stabbed the other man in the upper body. The victim, in turn, “was able to grab a sword from the suspect and swung it,” causing a superficial wound on his leg, police said.
“The two continued their confrontation down to the third floor when they became separated,” police wrote.
Shortly after that, two officers in the parking garage saw “an adult male with an ax and swords,” who began to run, according to police. Officers had caught him and taken him into custody when they heard a call from dispatch at 5:41 p.m. stating that there’d been a stabbing in the mall, with a suspect description that matched the man they’d apprehended, police said.
Police say the victim was transported to a hospital for treatment and that the wounds resulting from the fight are non-life-threatening. The suspect’s name and charges have not yet been made public.