UPDATE: Fisk’s preliminary autopsy results expected today

Juneau Police investigate the house of Juneau Mayor Greg Fisk on the evening of Monday November 30th. Photo by: Mikko Wilson / KTOO
Juneau Police investigated the house of Juneau Mayor Greg Fisk on the evening of Monday November 30. The investigation continued through Tuesday. (Photo by Mikko Wilson/KTOO)

Update | 12:26 p.m.

Juneau Police could receive information from today’s autopsy of late Juneau mayor Greg Fisk as early as this afternoon.

“The medical examiner’s office has said they would be communicating with the Juneau Police today with some preliminary results,” said Dawnell Smith, spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.

The state medical examiner’s office will also release some of its findings to family members. A final autopsy report will not be finalized for another couple of weeks.

A Juneau Police spokesperson says the department will have an update on its investigation into Fisk’s death at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Original story

An autopsy for the late Juneau mayor is scheduled for Wednesday. Juneau Police have said they can’t determine a cause of death for 70-year-old Greg Fisk without those results.

Fisk was discovered dead inside his Kennedy Street home Monday afternoon.

Juneau police spokesperson Erann Kalwara said the mayor’s son, Ian Fisk, had gone to the house because Fisk had missed several appointments that day. He saw his father’s body through a window.

“Ian approached the residence and noticed from the outside of the residence what had happened. And his father, the mayor, was in the front room,” Kalwara said.

Kalwara said Fisk sustained injuries. Juneau police do not know if the injuries were a result of an accident or other trauma.

Soon after Fisk was found, rumors about how he died started to circulate.

“We’re unable to share a lot of information about where those injuries were or what they involved,” Kalwara said. “However, they were not consistent with a gunshot wound or anything of that nature. It’s not out of question that the injuries could’ve been caused by a natural event or an accident. We don’t know that it’s definitely criminal in nature.”

Kalwara said Fisk’s home is still an active investigation scene. Police plan on again keeping an officer there overnight.

After the autopsy is conducted, Kalwara said police will know more about the cause of death. Preliminary information is expected later this week. Kalwara said Juneau Police Department remains the sole investigator on the death despite offers for assistance.

City meetings scheduled for Monday night were canceled. Deputy Mayor Mary Becker has assumed the mayor’s role and added the missed agenda items to the assembly’s Dec. 21 meeting.

Prior to his death, Fisk was scheduled to be out of the office from Nov. 30 until Dec. 4.

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