Rural Alaska

Coast Guard ends search for man missing in Southeast Alaska village

A search for man missing from a Southeast Alaska village has so far been unsuccessful.

Alaska State Troopers say 55-year-old Reginald Skeek Jr. has not been seen since Wednesday afternoon. Skeek was last seen at a village liquor store.

Surveillance video from the Kake Liquor Store reviewed Thursday shows a person behind the store falling off a dock into water at around 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Community members searching for Skeek were joined by two village public safety officers and two wildlife troopers. The search included a remotely operated underwater vehicle.

The Coast Guard said in a statement late Thursday it had called off its search.

Kake is a village of 600 on Kupreanof Island about 38 miles northwest of Petersburg.

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