APD investigates 2 unusual deaths at Point Woronzof

Two suspicious deaths in Anchorage have local police puzzled. APD was investigating a body that was found at the city’s Point Woronzoff early Thursday morning when they found a second person nearby, critically wounded. That person has since died in an Anchorage hospital.

Police spokesperson Anita Shell is saying little about the incident, except that someone called about the first body around 8:30 a.m. The second victim was located almost an hour later. Shell, in a press release, says the victims are a male and a female, and that police are in the process of notifying next of kin.

The cause of death has not been released for either victim.

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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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