A 50 year old man is shot during an attempted robbery in Des Moines, IA In the late hours of a Tuesday night in Des Moines, Iowa, the life of Ernest Lilly, a 50-year-old Caucasian man, was irrevocably altered. On September 11, 1973, as the clock neared 2:50 a.m., Lilly was leaving Frank's Tavern. As he made his way through the parking lot towards his car, he was suddenly shot in what investigators believed was an attempted robbery.
The single gunshot wound proved to be devastating. For three months, Ernest Lilly fought for his life in a local hospital. Despit
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