Franklin Cooley

Death by Force

Franklin Delano Cooley, born on December 25, 1937, tragically lost his life on March 25, 1978, in Richmond, Virginia. Cooley was one of the victims in a horrific robbery at a Shoney's restaurant located in Henrico County. On that fateful morning, before the restaurant opened for the day, an employee named Charles Sylvester Stamper locked three of his co-workers, including Cooley, in the walk-in cooler and fatally shot them with a .22 caliber pistol. The other victims were Steven Staples, the mor ...Read More

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