Andre LaFrance, a 33-year-old white male, died during an overnight shooting on April 18, 2015, in the Montana Creek area near Talkeetna, Alaska. Alaska State Troopers responded after a 911 call reported a killing at a residence; when troopers entered, they found two men with gunshot wounds. Andre LaFrance was pronounced dead at the scene. The other man, 57-year-old Billy Kidd of Willow, was airlifted to an Anchorage hospital in critical condition.
In the days that followed, Troopers publicly identified both men and confirmed the location and timing of the incident.
As the investigation unfolded, Troopers said evidence indicated that Billy Kidd shot Andre LaFrance and then turned the gun on himself. The 911 caller was identified as Kidd, who told dispatchers he had just killed someone before authorities arrived. No arrests were made; the case trajectory pointed to a murder-suicide rather than a homicide with a surviving suspect. Later updates confirmed that Kidd succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, meaning there would be no prosecution stemming from the fatal encounter.
Public records and memorial notices tied to the incident document Andre LaFrance's identity, age, and the date and place of his death. An obituary published in early May records that he was a lifelong Alaskan who died in Talkeetna on April 18, 2015; separate reporting lists his residence as Wasilla at the time of the shooting. These notices, together with law-enforcement updates issued in late April, form the clearest picture of the events: a sudden eruption of violence inside a Talkeetna-area home, an immediate death at the scene, and a second death days later in Anchorage, closing the door on the possibility of charges or further arrests.
