Gary Cooper, a 50-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was killed on Thursday, May 14, 2015, in the area where he lived on the 100 block of Linton Street. That evening, at about 6:49 p.m., Philadelphia police officers were called to the block and found him lying on the ground outside a residence. He had been shot, turning an ordinary evening on a residential street into the scene of a homicide investigation.
Officers moved quickly to get Cooper medical help, and he was transported to
Albert Einstein Medical Center. Despite that effort, he died later that night from his injuries. The available online source information identifies the case as a murder and places it under Philadelphia Police Department case number DC# 15-35-039810.
The public information available does not name any suspect or suspects, and it does not describe a motive, a confrontation, or the circumstances leading up to the shooting. No online source located reported an arrest in Cooper’s killing. Philadelphia police continue to present the case as unsolved and have asked anyone with information to contact investigators or submit an anonymous tip.
Because no arrest is reported in the available online source information, there are no public details showing charges, a trial, a conviction, or sentencing connected to Gary Cooper’s death. The case remains described as an open unsolved homicide, with investigators still seeking the piece of information that could identify who shot him and why.
