Juneau woman shot in head, medevaced to Anchorage

A 19-year-old Juneau woman has been medevaced to Anchorage after being shot in the head.

Authorities haven’t named the woman, who was in a townhouse on Amalga Street in the Mendenhall Valley.

Emergency officials were notified shortly before noon Friday. They didn’t know she had been shot until they arrived.

Speaking from the townhouse this afternoon, police Lt. David Campbell said investigators were conducting interviews and that the shooting happened inside.

“So it wasn’t like there was a discharge outside the townhouse, and she was just sitting there and got hit,” he said. “The gunshot originated from inside the townhouse.”

Campbell thinks a neighbor called 911.

Investigators are still trying to figure how many people were inside the residence, Campbell said.

“The detectives are doing interviews. I think that there was at least one other person inside the townhouse, that we’re talking to, doing interviews with,” he said. “There’s a possibility of more, but again it’s still developing so I don’t have an exact number.”

He says the area has been secured and the investigation is ongoing.

This story will be updated as more information is released.

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