A woman critically injured in a domestic violence stabbing early Sunday was helped by her daughter, who grabbed a knife from the hand of Alvin Rodriguez-Moya, according to charging documents filed in the case.
Rodriguez-Moya faces murder, attempted murder, assault and burglary charges in the incident, which also left a soldier dead.
According to the charges, the injured woman told police the person who stabbed her was Rodriguez-Moya, an ex-boyfriend. His bail was set at $1 million during an initial court appearance Monday at the Anchorage jail.
The victim and her daughter are not named because they are alleged victims of domestic violence.
Police say Rodriguez-Moya broke into a mobile home on Penland Parkway early Sunday morning, where he fought and fatally stabbed 33-year-old Paolo Grassi. Police also found the 56-year-old woman with stab wounds inside the trailer.
Officers arrived at the home shortly after receiving a 911 call around 3:30 a.m. They found the injured woman in the back of the home; a man later identified as Grassi was face down on the living room floor amid the remains of a shattered glass table.
The U.S. Army Alaska said Grassi was a soldier who came to the state in August 2012. According to the Army, Grassi was born in Varese, Italy, and joined the military in Twin Falls, Idaho, in April 2012. He graduated from One Station Unit Training and Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia, in July 2012 as an infantryman.
Anchorage police homicide detective James Trull wrote in the charges that Rodriguez-Moya lived two mobile homes north of the scene of the stabbing.
The woman identified Rodriguez-Moya as the assailant before she was transported to Providence Alaska Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, Trull said. A prosecutor said Monday that she underwent lengthy surgery. She was in stable condition Monday morning, according to police.
The injured woman's daughter told police she went to bed in the trailer around 2 a.m. and woke up an hour and a half later to the sound of her mother screaming. She found her mother in the hallway suffering from stab wounds.
Grassi and Rodriguez-Moya were arguing in the living room, she told police.
The daughter grabbed her mother and they hid in a bedroom but Rodriguez-Moya eventually kicked the door in, with a knife in hand, the charges said.
He told the woman he wouldn't kill her because of the "little girl." He also said something to the effect of "I just killed him, go see," the daughter told police.
The daughter "saw that Alvin Rodriguez-Moya was holding the knife loosely in his hand," the charges said. "She then grabbed the knife from (him) and threw the knife into a bedroom."
After officers responded, they went looking for Rodriguez-Moya at the nearby home. The occupants told officers he lived there but wasn't home. One of the tenants told officers during an interview that Rodriguez-Moya had been there earlier Saturday evening but left "and was gone for a period of time."
When Rodriguez-Moya returned, the witness "noticed a bleeding cut over Alvin Rodriguez-Moya's right eye," the charges say.
Rodriguez-Moya wouldn't say what happened and went to his room. He left through the back door of the home "some time later," the charges say.
Police requested the public's help finding Rodriguez-Moya early Sunday morning. He contacted police Sunday evening around the same time a citizen spotted him in East Anchorage, according to police spokesperson Jennifer Castro.
Rodriguez-Moya was charged with first- and second-degree murder, as well as first-degree attempted murder, assault and burglary.
During his initial court hearing Monday, Rodriguez-Moya said little in response to questions from a district court judge.
The judge detailed the maximum sentences Rodriguez-Moya faces. The charge of murder in the first degree carries a sentence of no fewer than 20 years in prison in the event of a guilty verdict; the maximum penalty is a life sentence.
Rodriguez-Moya said he made about $1,000 a month and had about $10,000 in savings before being appointed a public defender.
In asking for the $1 million bail, Assistant District Attorney Katholyn Runnels said Rodriguez-Moya was a flight risk and danger to the community. He has a prior felony conviction for distributing drugs, according to the prosecutor.
"The state finds him an extreme danger to the victims," Runnels said.