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
Account
