By Police1 Staff
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An officer and a woman are recovering after being stabbed by a knife-wielding fugitive.
According to Alaska Dispatch News, a woman, 36, was walking to her car Wednesday when Armando Walker, 26, got into a “verbal confrontation” with her.
Police said the woman, who has a prior relationship with Walker, went into a grocery store to seek help when Walker allegedly threw her to the ground and “threatened her both verbally and with a knife.”
“Officers approached and tried to contact him,” Capt. Ken McCoy said. “At that point he began to move his hands inside his jacket, which made officers believe he had a weapon.”
Walker resisted and stabbed an officer and the woman .
A civilian jumped in during the fight to try to help control the suspect, but Walker became too violent. Walker was TASERed twice and taken into custody, KTUU reported.
The officer and the woman were transferred to the hospital for puncture wounds. Neither are listed in critical condition. Police said the woman underwent surgery Wednesday for non-life-threatening injuries.
Police Chief Chris Tolley told KTUU that the officer “looked like he was mauled by a bear, but seemed in good spirits.”
The officer who was stabbed graduated from the academy in December and was in his field training phase.
Walker is held on two counts of second-degree assault involving repeated serious injuries, as well as one count of fourth-degree criminal mischief.