On the evening of March 19, 2020, a deputy with the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office confronted 33-year-old Kyle Anthony Eichler in Wheeling, Missouri. Authorities say the deputy experienced difficulties with Eichler during the encounter and discharged a service weapon, striking Eichler. Eichler was taken to Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, where he was later pronounced dead. The deputy was also injured, treated at the same hospital, and released.

The Livingston County Sheriff requested an independent inquiry by the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control, and the deputy was placed on administrative leave while that investigation proceeded. No reports indicate the officer was arrested or charged. Eichler, a Chillicothe resident known as Kool Kyle, was remembered by family as an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, cutting wood, and working on vehicles; he is survived by two children, his parents, and siblings.

If anyone witnessed the March 19 traffic stop or has information about what happened that night, please share what is known.