Woman shot in leg

WASILLA — A woman with a gunshot wound to the leg called the Palmer emergency dispatch number from a gas station in Wasilla shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday seeking help.

Alaska State Troopers report they don’t know who shot the woman or what a motive might be.

“We’re still trying to sort it out,” said AST spokeswoman Megan Peters. “The investigation is ongoing.”

The shooting brought the Alaska Bureau of Investigation and Alaska State Crime Lab technicians to the Tesoro-to-Go station at the Parks Highway and Pittman Road in a search for clues, troopers report. The woman and a companion were together in a 2005 Dodge pickup truck and had stopped at the station to get gas.

She was transported to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center and treated for a non-life-threatening wound.

Troopers has relesed no further details.

The woman’s companion, 28-year-old Wasilla resident Montague James, was interviewed by troopers as part of the shooting investigation then arrested on an unrelated warrant out of Anchorage for contempt of court. He was remanded to Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $500 bail.