Ignatius John Charlie was a 20-year-old Alaskan Native village patrolman with the Alakanuk Police Department when he was killed on May 10, 1985. Memorial listings and gravesite records give his birth as May 29, 1964, and confirm gunfire as the cause of death. He had been on the job less than a year and is recorded as the youngest police officer killed in the line of duty in Alaska.

Accounts say Patrolman Charlie encountered suspicious activity tied to a burglary in progress in the pre-dawn hours. He stopped to investigate an abandoned or suspicious snowmachine and, while interrupting the crime, was shot and killed.

Anyone who knew Ignatius, served with him, or has information about the May 10, 1985 incident in Alakanuk is asked to come forward.