Richard Hall, male, 56, died in Ketchikan, Alaska, on May 12, 2017. Public memorial and incident registries fix the date and place of his death and classify the loss as involving gun violence, preserving his name and age even as other personal details remain sparse.
His entry appears among the “Americans killed with guns on May 12, 2017,” a roll that marks the day by listing victims across the country.
The Ketchikan listing for a 56-year-old named Richard Hall is also tied to a state incident record referenced by the Gun Violence Archive, indicating that authorities documented an event in Ketchikan on that date under incident number AK17030834. Together, those records establish the basic facts: a man, 56, named Richard Hall, died in Ketchikan on May 12, 2017, in circumstances associated with gun violence.
Beyond those confirmations, the public trail grows thin. Local year-in-review features and crime coverage from that period detail other homicide cases in Ketchikan later in 2017, but they do not surface additional reporting about the May 12 death of Richard Hall. No contemporaneous articles in accessible local archives name a suspect connected to his case, and no public follow-up points to an arrest. In the available online record, there is no indication that authorities announced an identified suspect or made an arrest in the death of Richard Hall, male, 56.
