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Kaleb Anthony Hilliard, 21, arrested after a Kalispell apartment shooting that killed a 19-year-old.
Kalispell Police Chief Jordan Venezio said Hilliard is held on pending charges of deliberate homicide and three counts of attempted deliberate homicide. Gunfire started about 1:13 a.m. Tuesday on the 100 block of Seventh Avenue East North. A 19-year-old man died at the scene. Three other people were taken to Logan Health. Police have not named the man who died.
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The charges are pending. Police say the people involved appear to have known one another, and they called the shooting isolated. The man who died has not been named because next of kin are still being notified. A pending charge is not a conviction.
Kaleb Anthony Hilliard, 21, is in custody after an early-morning shooting at an apartment complex in Kalispell, Mont., the Daily Inter Lake reported Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. Kalispell Police Chief Jordan Venezio said in an afternoon statement that Hilliard is being held on pending charges of deliberate homicide and three counts of attempted deliberate homicide. The Coeur d'Alene Press carried the same account.
The gunfire began about 1:13 a.m. on the 100 block of Seventh Avenue East North, the Daily Inter Lake reported, citing police. Officers found several people with gunshot wounds. A 19-year-old man died at the scene. Venezio said authorities are notifying his next of kin before they identify him. Three other people who were hurt were taken to Logan Health Medical Center. Police have not described their conditions.
Venezio said officers tracked Hilliard to a Kalispell home and arrested him, the Daily Inter Lake reported. Officials said the people involved appear to have known one another. They called the shooting isolated and said there was no ongoing threat to public safety. Investigators expected to stay at the scene for some time and asked residents to avoid the block. Those statements describe the arrest and the scene. They are not a finding that Hilliard fired, and the charges remain pending. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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