Alaska News

Woman found not breathing at Mountain View homeless camp dies

Anchorage police are investigating the death of a woman who died after she was found unresponsive at a Mountain View homeless camp early Wednesday morning.

APD spokeswoman Anita Shell said police received an initial call at 3:40 a.m., reporting the unresponsive woman at a camp off the 2800 block of Richmond Avenue near Tyson Elementary School.

"The caller stated that his girlfriend was unconscious and not breathing," Shell wrote in a statement on the incident. "The woman was transported to a local hospital where she was declared deceased."

The woman's name was being withheld, pending notification of her next of kin.

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