Man accused of shooting Anchorage police officer during standoff indicted on attempted murder charges

The 28-year-old man accused of shooting a police officer during a lengthy standoff near downtown Anchorage earlier this month was indicted this week on multiple counts, including attempted murder.

Dillon Spring shot an Anchorage Police Department officer the morning of March 18 after barricading himself in his East 10th Avenue apartment, police said at the time.

Officers responded to the address on a report that Spring assaulted another tenant with a hammer, police said. The officer was shot when he and others made entry into the apartment and an exchange of gunfire ensued.

The injured officer was identified by the Alaska Department of Law on Thursday as Officer Dominick Eubank. He was shot multiple times in the lower body, police have said. Other officers dragged him out of the apartment to safety.

Eubank has been with the department since June 2016, police spokeswoman Renee Oistad said. Oistad said police are not releasing any information regarding his medical condition.

The standoff lasted more than 10 hours and occupied a six-block stretch of Ingra Street and surrounding neighborhoods. Some residents were evacuated but others reported hearing what sounded like gunfire and intermittent explosions from deterrents being used to extricate Spring, who could be seen carrying a rifle on the building’s top floor.

Spring emerged without incident after negotiators reached him by phone, police said.

An Anchorage grand jury on Wednesday indicted Spring on six counts of attempted first-degree murder, eight counts of first-degree assault and six counts of third-degree assault, according to a Department of Law statement.

The attempted murder counts reflect the number of police officers whom prosecutors say Spring tried to shoot as they made entry. The others involved were identified Thursday as Sgt. Justin Blake and officers Brandon Schafer, Bradley Breager, Heather Mitzel and Jacob Raygor.

Spring is jailed at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. A judge on March 19 set temporary bail at $300,000 cash performance and $300,000 cash appearance with conditions of release including third-party custodian and electronic monitoring, according to a state courts database.

He was scheduled for arraignment Friday morning.