Cooper, Jimmie R.
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
- —
- Record count
- 2
- Sources
- life_events
- Places seen
- Kennett, Dunklin County; Malden, Missouri (Dunklin County)
- First event date
- 1977-08-10
- Last event date
- 1977-08-10
Timeline — 2 events
- 1977-08-10 30; of the Bernie and Malden area; held Dexter police officers at gunpoint with more than a dozen hostages; shot himself in the lower chest with a .38 caliber revolver at 9:42 a.m., ending a 14-hour trail of hostages, shootings and back-road chases; a total of 16 hostages; used the alias 'Jasper Cooper'; late reports said his condition was not serious, no major organs or bones struck by the single slug; FBI charges made
- 1977-08-10 After a 14-hour spree of kidnapping, shooting and back-road chases through two counties, Cooper shot himself at 9:43 a.m. today and was rushed by ambulance to Dunklin County Memorial Hospital in Kennett; Dunklin County Sheriff Tom Crump recovered the gun Cooper allegedly used.
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