Anchorage Daily News

Anchorage police were investigating the deaths of two men, one found in a Midtown parking lot and the other in Chester Creek over the weekend.

Early Saturday morning, patrol officers found a man with "apparent trauma to the upper torso" in the parking lot of an apartment building in the 900 block of West 27th Avenue. That's just west of Arctic Boulevard.

Officers called to the scene about 5:25 a.m. began cardiopulmonary resuscitation but paramedics determined the victim was dead, according to a statement from police Lt. Paul Honeman.

Homicide detectives investigated what was being called "an undetermined death," the statement said.

They interviewed several people from the neighborhood and asked anyone else with information to call the police department at 786-8900.

An autopsy is planned to determine how the man died. The police department did not immediately release his name as detectives tried to contact his relatives.

In the second case, an investigation continued into the Friday evening discovery of a body in Chester Creek near A Street.

Police identified the man but withheld his name pending family notification.

A man flagged down officers just after 6 p.m. Friday and said he'd found a body in the water, police Sgt. Pablo Paiz said Saturday.

The body was caught in a tangle of debris in an eddy in the creek, Paiz said.

The victim hadn't been dead for very long and the body showed no obvious trauma, he said. An autopsy was to be performed.

The man wasn't homeless, but alcohol appears to have been a factor in his death, Paiz said.

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