Anchorage police are investigating a homicide in the city’s Spenard neighborhood.
Police responded to a trailer residence located on the 2400 block of McRae Road after 2 a.m. Monday morning. They identified a male victim who was transported to a local hospital with a life-threatening injury.
The male was pronounced deceased at the hospital just after 4 a.m. A suspect has been taken into custody.
Police are not releasing the nature of the assault at this time.
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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