Evelyn Tyler

Death by Force

Evelyn Tyler, 24, was killed by gunfire on June 21, 1941, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The summer evening that took her life also claimed two others—Charles J. Decker, 34, and Galen Gilmore, 21—binding their names together in a brief, violent episode that flickered across the city’s early wartime years. Sparse surviving notices capture only the essential facts: the date, the city, the ages, and the blunt manner of death.

In the fragmentary public record that remains, the event reads like ...Read More

Evelyn Tyler, age 24 - National Gun Violence Memorial