William Edwin “Bill” Gaul

How they died

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.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that William Edwin “Bill” Gaul, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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