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 a star
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