Zachary Roger Hoeft

Zachary Roger Hoeft, often called Zac, was born September 8, 1991. Public records and law-enforcement information identify him as a 28-year-old who lived in Columbus, Ohio. While formal obituary and family-published memorial notices matching his name and the exact date of death (September 25, 2019) were not located in the sources searched, multiple official and established public records confirm his identity, birth date, and the date he passed.

The publicly available records emphasize Zac as a real person with family, friends, and community ties — someone who mattered to those around him. Contemporary memorial pages and community posts describe him with the familiar nicknames “Zac” and “Zac with a Z,” and commenters remember him as kind and well liked by friends. These personal remembrances, while not official obituaries, reflect the affection others held for him.

Zac’s life, like many lives, encompassed ordinary days and relationships that made him known to those close to him. He is recorded in official cold-case archives maintained by the City of Columbus and the Ohio Attorney General’s unsolved-homicide listings, which provide factual details about his birth date, age, and the circumstances surrounding his death. Those records show that he was 28 when he died on September 25, 2019, and that the community and law enforcement have continued to seek information to answer questions about his passing.

Because an authorized funeral-home obituary or family-published notice matching both the full name and the exact date of death in the public record was not found, this remembrance focuses on human dignity rather than the circumstances of his death. Zac’s recorded dates and the memories shared by friends and neighbors stand as evidence that he was a person who left an imprint on others’ lives. For family, friends, and those who knew him, he remains a loved individual whose life mattered beyond the public record.

If family members or others with close knowledge wish to provide or authorize a formal obituary or additional personal details for a memorial page, those contributions would help ensure a fuller, family-centered remembrance that honors Zac in his own words and in the voices of those who loved him.