Bruce L. Hill

Suicide

Police received a call at about 10:30 a.m. to perform a welfare check on a woman at a residence on Diamond Street. Two St. Albans officers responded and knocked on the door. A gunshot was allegedly fired from inside the residence through a frosted glass pane in the closed door. The officers retreated from the porch to a home across the street and attempted to make verbal contact with the individuals in the initial residence. The woman was evacuated from the residence by ladder from a second-floor window in the rear of the home. She was unharmed. Police made entry into the residence at 11:31 a.m. and found Bruce L. Hill dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.