Memorial For Eric Hall

A Florida medical examiner today confirmed that a body found Sunday in a culvert in Charlotte County, Fla., is that of Eric Hall, a former Marine from Jeffersonville who was severely wounded in Iraq three years ago.

Hall had suffered a severe hip injury, a broken leg and nerve damage to his arm in a roadside bomb explosion in Fallujah. He also had been suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

Hall, 24, was last seen on Feb. 3, when he left the house of a relative he had been visiting near Punta Gorda, Fla., saying it was surrounded. His motorcycle was found later on a road, on its side and still running.

A massive search in the area where the motorcycle had been found was unsuccessful until Sunday, when a volunteer who had been helping in the search noticed a strong odor coming from the culvert. A badly decomposed body was removed later that day about 50 yards into the culvert.

The Charlotte County Medical Examiner has identified the body as Hall’s using his military medical records.

Hall’s mother, Becky Hall of Jeffersonville who has been in Florida helping organize the search effort, has scheduled a news conference at noon today, and a military memorial service has been scheduled for noon tomorrow at the Faith Lutheran Church at 4005 Palm Dr. in Punta Gorda.

Eric Hall’s father, Kevin Hall of Jeffersonville, said 400 people—many of them military veterans—had said they would participate in the event.


There is to be a memorial for him tomorrow, Sunday, at 11 am at coots funeral home in Jeffersonville.