Teenager dies after a stabbing during a fight in a Wasilla movie theater

Wasilla Police Department officers were dispatched to the Valley Cinema, on Old Matanuska Road, at about 6:45 p.m. Friday for a reported stabbing. Police and Alaska State Troopers arrived and found that multiple teenagers had been involved in a fight inside one of the theaters. During the fight, one teenager was stabbed, according to a press release issued by WPD Saturday afternoon.

The suspect remained on scene and cooperated with officers, while the victim was transported to Mat-Su Regional for life-saving treatment. The victim later died of their injuries after being air-lifted to Providence Hospital, police said.