James Kirchgessler, 78, died in Los Angeles on March 29, 2026. Public death listings record his death at a hospital that day, and a gun-violence memorial entry identifies him among those lost to fatal gun violence on March 29. The official death record indexed so far does not yet list a final manner of death, and no medical examiner entry with a cause-and-manner determination was found.

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