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Michelle Theriault Boots

A young man went on a violent spree in an Anchorage complex for seniors. An 88-year-old fought him off.

Stanley Sienda, 88, had just returned from his customary daily jog one afternoon in late April when he heard someone pounding on the door of his apartment in Chugach View, a Fairview public housing complex for seniors.

"I open the door," said Sienda. "And somebody grabbed me and bit me on the neck."

He found himself grappling on the floor with a stranger, a far younger man who was biting and kicking him with heavy shoes.

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