Officer-Involved Shooting in Anchorage: Details Emerge

0:00It's April 13. You're listening to Anchorage News today, AI-powered local news. I'm Corey with the story. Anchorage police named the officer in last week's Mountain View shooting as Maxwell Horowitz. He's been on the force since December 2024 and graduated from the Academy in May 2025. The whole thing went down early on April 7th around 3 a.m. in the 700 block of North Burgoste after a call about a disturbance, with a weapon. The victim reported being choked with an infant inside and the suspect having access to guns. Cops tried contacting him, but he bolted just before 6 a.m. Police chief Sean Case said they uncovered signs of three separate assaults during talks. With the victim, neighbors woke up to gunshots around 7 a.m., but luckily no one got hit by the gunfire, not officers, not bystanders. Both the suspect and Horowitz fired shots during the chaos. Police tracked the suspect nearby, leading to a physical fight where they called in a canine dog to help take him down.

1:02He ended up in the hospital with dog bite injuries, but the canine was fine. Now the office of special prosecutions is digging into the officer's use of force to see if it was justified, then internal affairs will check for. Policy issues. Once that's done, the findings go public, so we'll keep watching how this plays out.