Anchorage man shot after walking in on apparent burglary

ANCHORAGE — A man returning to his southeast Anchorage apartment early Sunday afternoon walked in on an apparent burglary and was shot.

Anchorage police say the man was hit twice in the torso and is in serious condition.

The man and a friend approached the front door and noticed it had been forced open.

They walked inside and saw a man, who fired a handgun twice.

The apartment resident and his friend fled. Police found him at the bottom of the apartment complex’s stairwell.

Witnesses describe the shooter as a white man in his 20s, 5-foot-7 and thin. He wore a black baseball cap, gray hooded sweat shirt and blue jeans.

He got into the passenger side of a red sedan. Witnesses had no description of the driver.

The apartment was ransacked.

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