Ethan Noll was 34 when he died on April 4, 2015, in Edgewood, New Mexico. A White former Marine who served with the Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, he was a husband and father of five with a sixth child on the way. Noll had built an off-grid stone house and lived a self-sufficient lifestyle.

A neighborhood dispute led to calls to police. Officers from the New Mexico State Police and the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office responded and a standoff followed. Noll reportedly barricaded himself inside his home and was armed with a rifle. After several hours, he emerged and was fatally shot by law enforcement. The New Mexico State Police conducted an investigation and the district attorney reviewed the case, concluding the officers’ actions were justified; no arrests were made.

What do readers who knew Ethan or his family remember about him or the events that day?