A 31-year-old Anchorage man was killed in a motorcycle crash on the Hillside early Thursday morning, police said.
Someone called police at 2:21 a.m. to report that they heard the crash and found a motorcyclist who had gone off the roadway and down an embankment near Glen Alps Road, Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Castro wrote in a statement.
Paramedics responded and declared the motorcyclist, identified as Nicholas Byers, dead at the scene, Castro said.
Byers was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, Castro said.
She said the cause of the crash is under investigation, and no further details were immediately available.
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