The Juneau Police Department has announced that one of its officers shot a man about 4:19 a.m. Saturday on Oceanview Drive in the Lena Point area.
The announcement was made just before 8 a.m. in an official press release from JPD. The names of the officers and the shooting victim were not released.
According to the department, two JPD officers contacted the man in the 16500 block of Oceanview early Saturday. The injured man was taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital via ambulance and subsequently was medevaced to Anchorage.
Both officers were unharmed and have been placed on administrative leave, the department said.
Under JPD policy, the names of the officers will not be released for at least 24 hours.
On Saturday morning, residents reported Oceanview blocked by police tape and vehicles near the NOAA research center.
Officer-involved shootings are extraordinarily rare in Juneau. The last significant incident took place in 2012, when former JPD Lt. Troy Wilson barricaded himself in his home and fired more than 75 shots at responding officers. He was sentenced in 2013 to nine years in prison; no one was injured in that exchange of gunfire.
In 2007, a JPD officer shot and killed 40-year-old Randall Clevenger near Thunder Mountain Trailer Park when Clevenger advanced on officers with a raised samurai sword. That shooting was the first in 11 years to involve Juneau police.
This is a developing story. JPD has announced it will release more information about noon as it investigates the incident.
