Every day in the U.S. about 108 people are shot dead in one way or another. At GunMemorial.org we try to post pages for all of these people even though the circumstances of their deaths can be drastically different.

James Nathaniel Gordon, age 28

Fatally shot on April 9, 2016 in Lexington, Kentucky.

Gordon served in the Army National Guard in Iraq, and he was given the Army Achievement Medal, Army Service Ribbon and National Defense Service Medal. He worked as a security guard for Alpha Security.

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