An Anchorage man who exchanged gunfire with a police officer before a police dog helped subdue him now faces charges of assault.
Kamehameha Patterson, 24, is alleged to have choked his wife twice in their home in the Russian Jack neighborhood April 7, according to a charging document filed a week later.
At one point, Patterson is alleged to have lifted his wife off the ground with his hands around her neck as she held her 5-month-old child. Patterson’s wife told officers that he would “change like a switch” when he drank and would abuse her, the charges say. Witnesses also told police that Patterson consumed mushrooms prior to strangling his wife, according to the charges…