A Georgetown family continues to search for answers after their son died on Dec. 23, 2023 at the age of 21 while serving at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.
According to Tanner’s parents, Julie and Bobby Young, and their attorney, Dennis Shepherd, details surrounding Tanner’s death are a mystery.
“I still do not know how my son passed away. No mother should endure this. Unfortunately there was no investigation to my knowledge done for my son, Tanner Young, and that as a mother is what breaks me,” Julie said.
Alaska State Troopers found Tanner dead and their immediate conclusion was death by suicide. However, Shepherd is in the early stages of his own investigation. He sent LEX 18 the report he received from the Alaska Department of Public Safety and it’s heavily redacted.
“There’s no indication that they did anything except to accept the word of a couple of state troopers that it was a self inflicted wound,” Shepherd said.
Notably, Shepherd’s job is to get the unredacted report.