Alaska Department Of Public Safety,State Troopers Public Information Office

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On March 3, 2025, at 8:09 am an inmate at the Anchorage Correctional Complex was found unresponsive in a cell. Correctional Officers and medical staff at the facility provided lifesaving efforts as EMS responded. 42-year-old Kodiak resident Reginald Childers was later declared deceased at an Anchorage area hospital. Investigators from the Alaska Bureau of Investigation responded to the facility to investigate the death. A preliminary investigation has determined that no foul play is suspected in Childers’ death and that his death was self-inflicted. Childers’ body was sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy and his next of kin have been notified.