On June 27, 2017, Kobe Paul, Male, age 17, of Kipnuk, Alaska died in his home region on the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta. He is recorded in national gun fatality records as a 17-year-old male victim from Kipnuk on that date, fixing the place and time of the loss.
Contemporaneous incident data compiled from public records describes the death as a shooting and classifies it as a suicide; the entry lists no assailant.
In the aftermath, authorities did not announce any arrests and did not identify any suspects, consistent with a self-inflicted shooting determination.
In the weeks that followed, an obituary published by a regional newspaper memorialized Kobe Jason “Lugiiq” Paul, noting his family roots in Bethel and Kipnuk and tracing a life closely tied to school, subsistence seasons, and the river country he called home. That remembrance places his death in late June 2017 and situates his childhood and schooling in the community he grew up in, offering the portrait of a teenager embedded in village life.
His name remains listed among those lost on June 27, 2017, in online memorial rolls that preserve the basic facts of age, gender, date, and community—silent records that, taken together with the incident classification, reinforce that there were no suspects pursued and no charges brought in connection with his death.
