Rudie Wilhelm III

How they died

Deadly force

Wilhelm was a businessman who recently presided over the closing of a century-old family-owned distribution company. He called police in the pre-dawn hours, suicidal. When they arrived they found Wilhelm's front door open and Wilhelm armed with a shotgun. After an exchange of gunfire officers found him dead on his front porch.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Rudie Wilhelm III, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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