By Associated Press - Monday, October 8, 2018

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anchorage police have released the name of a man killed in a weekend motorcycle crash.

Thirty-five-year-old James Alcorn died Saturday afternoon.

Police shortly after 2:30 p.m. took a call of a single-vehicle crash on Gambell Street between 15th Avenue and Fireweed Lane.



Police say Alcorn had been driving fast. He lost control of the motorcycle and struck a pole.

Emergency responders pronounced Alcorn dead at the scene.

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