Overview

Last known date: August 3, 2025
Last known location: Anchorage, Alaska
Investigating agency: Anchorage Police Department
Date of birth: July 7, 2007
Sex: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Alaska Native/American Indian
Official circumstance classification: Not Suspicious

Main Points

• Thomas Sours was last contacted in Anchorage on August 3, 2025.
• Alaska records classify the circumstances as “Not Suspicious.”
• In Alaska’s reporting system, that classification means authorities have found no indication of criminal activity or an environmental factor associated with the disappearance based on the information available to the investigating agency.
• No publicly verified information reviewed for this article identifies a suspect, homicide, kidnapping, accident, or other specific event explaining Sours’ disappearance.
• Sours remained included in Alaska’s 2026 first-quarter missing-person report, showing that the case had not been publicly removed from the state’s missing-person reporting by that reporting period.

Detailed Case Breakdown

Thomas Sours Missing in Anchorage, Alaska: What Is Known About the 2025 Disappearance

Thomas Sours, an Alaska Native/American Indian male from Anchorage, Alaska, has been listed among Alaska’s missing persons since August 3, 2025. Publicly available state records identify Sours’ date of birth as July 7, 2007, meaning he had recently turned 18 when he was last contacted. His case is being handled by the Anchorage Police Department (APD).

State records provide very little information about what happened immediately before Sours disappeared. No specific Anchorage address, neighborhood, destination, vehicle, clothing description, or account of who last saw him is included in the publicly available quarterly report reviewed for this article.

Very Brief Case Summary

Last known date: August 3, 2025
Last known location: Anchorage, Alaska
Investigating agency: Anchorage Police Department
Date of birth: July 7, 2007
Sex: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Alaska Native/American Indian
Official circumstance classification: Not Suspicious

Main Points

• Thomas Sours was last contacted in Anchorage on August 3, 2025.
• Alaska records classify the circumstances as “Not Suspicious.”
• In Alaska’s reporting system, that classification means authorities have found no indication of criminal activity or an environmental factor associated with the disappearance based on the information available to the investigating agency.
• No publicly verified information reviewed for this article identifies a suspect, homicide, kidnapping, accident, or other specific event explaining Sours’ disappearance.
• Sours remained included in Alaska’s 2026 first-quarter missing-person report, showing that the case had not been publicly removed from the state’s missing-person reporting by that reporting period.

What Happened to Thomas Sours?

The confirmed public timeline begins on August 3, 2025, the date authorities list as Thomas Sours’ last contact. Anchorage is identified as both the city connected with the case and the jurisdiction of the investigating police department.

Beyond those facts, officials have released few publicly searchable details concerning his final known movements. There is no verified public account establishing precisely where in Anchorage Sours was last seen, whom he was with, where he intended to go, or what circumstances caused someone to report him missing.

That lack of detail should not be filled with assumptions. In particular, nothing in the official information reviewed establishes that Sours was the victim of violence.

Why the Case Is Classified as “Not Suspicious”

Alaska’s missing-person reporting system separates cases into several circumstance categories. The state defines “Not Suspicious” as a case in which there is no indication of criminal activity or an environmental factor surrounding the disappearance.

That designation does not explain why Sours disappeared, nor does it mean that authorities know where he is. It reflects the circumstances known to law enforcement when the classification was made.

The state separately uses a “Suspicious” designation when suspected criminal activity surrounds a disappearance and an “Environment” designation for cases connected to wilderness, waterways, oceans, aircraft crashes, or similar situations in which remains were not recovered. Sours is not publicly categorized under either of those classifications.

Latest Public Investigation Information

The most significant recent official development is that Thomas Sours continued to appear in Alaska’s 2026 first-quarter report of missing Alaska Native and American Indian people, which was published by the Alaska Department of Public Safety in May 2026. His entry continued to identify the Anchorage Police Department as the responsible agency, August 3, 2025 as his last-contact date, and the circumstances as “Not Suspicious.”

No later publicly indexed announcement located during research for this article states that Sours has been found. Likewise, no publicly verified APD or state announcement reviewed here reports an arrest, named person of interest, evidence of homicide, or change of the case classification.

The Alaska Missing Persons Clearinghouse maintains the statewide list of reported missing people and says its active list is updated daily at 6:00 a.m. The Clearinghouse also notes that not every missing person receives a public bulletin because circumstances vary and a bulletin may not always assist in locating the person.

That distinction could help explain why comparatively little information about Sours is publicly available.

Anchorage Police Expand Missing-Person Resources

In May 2026, the Anchorage Police Department launched a new missing-person resource page with an increased focus on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons. Although APD’s announcement did not single out Thomas Sours, the initiative is relevant because Sours is identified by the state as Alaska Native/American Indian and his case is assigned to APD.

APD says the resource is intended to provide information about missing-person investigations, resources for families, ways to submit information, and greater accountability concerning missing-person cases. The department also states that people do not have to wait 24 hours before reporting someone missing.

For existing cases, APD asks people with information to contact dispatch at 311 or 907-786-8900 so information can be properly documented and routed to investigators.

The Search for Answers Continues

More than a year after Thomas Sours’ last known contact, publicly released information still leaves basic questions unanswered: where exactly he was last seen, what happened afterward, whether anyone has communicated with him since August 3, 2025, and what investigative steps have been taken behind the scenes.

What can be established is narrower but important. Thomas Sours was reported missing from Anchorage, his last-contact date is August 3, 2025, the Anchorage Police Department is the investigating agency, and Alaska authorities have publicly classified the circumstances as not suspicious. He continued to be included in state missing-person reporting in 2026.

Anyone with credible information concerning Thomas Sours’ whereabouts should provide it directly to the Anchorage Police Department so investigators can evaluate it against information that may not have been made public.