2007-03-25 07:46:35 · 5 answers · asked by mjc1428 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The details of the case involving Sam Cooke's death are still in dispute. The official police record[1] states that Cooke was shot to death by Bertha Franklin, the manager of the Hacienda Motel, where Cooke had checked in earlier that evening. Franklin claimed that Cooke had broken into the manager's office/apartment in a rage, wearing nothing but a shoe and an overcoat (and nothing beneath it) demanding to know the whereabouts of a woman who had accompanied him to the motel. Franklin said that the woman was not in the office and that she told Cooke this, but the enraged Cooke did not believe her and violently grabbed her demanding again to know the woman's whereabouts. According to Franklin, she grappled with Cooke, the two of them fell to the floor, and she then got up and ran to retrieve her gun. She said that she then fired at Cooke in self-defense because she feared for her life. According to Franklin, Cooke exclaimed, "Lady, you shot me," before finally falling, mortally wounded.
2007-03-25 07:53:32 · answer #1 · answered by jsweit8573 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think he was set up, I also think she lied, because she didn't want to give the money back to cook.
2016-06-18 05:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow thanks for asking the question I didn't know the story....it's interesting. Who was the woman with him?
2007-03-25 08:37:03 · answer #3 · answered by Lynn T 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they say he was shot
2007-03-25 07:50:38 · answer #4 · answered by str8 outta louisville 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-19 12:55:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋