William Edwin “Bill” Gaul

Suicide

Gaul had threatened to harm himself during negotiations with law enforcement while he was barricaded inside an 18-foot travel trailer parked by the side of Robinson Road. Officers heard a single gunshot from within Gaul's trailer, but because yelling had been heard from the trailer after the gunshot, and they could see no obvious signs of trauma, they did not know he had shot himself, police said. His body was found an hour and a half after the gunshot.