ANCHORAGE — A 15-year-old boy has been detained after a woman and her teenage daughter were fatally shot in a South Anchorage home.
Police in a release Wednesday morning say the youth lived at the home, and an officer earlier said it was an apparent act of domestic violence.
The youth’s name wasn’t released because of his age. The Associated Press doesn’t usually identify minors accused of crimes. It is withholding the victims’ names because their relationship to the 15-year-old is unclear.
Charges have been referred to the Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice, and the boy is being held at the McLaughlin Youth Facility in Anchorage.
Anchorage District Attorney Clint Campion tells the Alaska Dispatch News what charges, if any, filed against the teen won’t be disclosed since this is a juvenile court matter.
A man came home Tuesday evening and found his wife and daughter dead in the home.
Police say the 15-year-old boy took off in a pickup owned by one of the victims. The boy was found in the pickup later Tuesday evening in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
