FD-350 clipping 'Skyjacker Killed at Beach' re death of Richard McCoy, Richmond News Leader
Document date 11 November 1974
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 45 pp. 245–247 (DB Cooper-18450–18452), News clipping, dated 11 Nov 1974 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-45%3A245-247
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below)
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Skyjacker Killed at Beach
SUB 356;B-
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BY DAVE RILEY VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) — Richard Floyd McCoy and Melvin Dale Walker kept to themselves when they were staying in the ranch-style house they rented in a peaceful sub- division here.
Neighbors had little contact with the two, except for an oc- casional passing greeting or a friendly wave as McCoy jogged through the neighborhood. One of the men once offered to help fix a neighbor's car.
Then late Saturday night, FBI agents swooped down on the rented house after three days of surveillance. Shots were fired. McCoy was killed and Walker arrested.
'THEY SEEMED SO NICE' "I just can't believe it. They seemed so nice," said one neighbor after discovering that McCoy was a convicted sky- jacker who once bailed out of a jetliner with $500,000 ransom and that Walker was a bank rob- ber on the FBI's 10-most wanted list.
Federal agents say the men were using the house in the quiet middle class neighborhood a few miles from the oceanfront as an occasional hideout.
Both had been the objects of a nationwide manhunt since they fled from a federal prison in a rain of gunfire three months ago.
FBI agents were staked out inside the rented house and
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MELVIN WALKER In Custody
RICHARD F. MCCOY Dead in Incident
AP Wirephotos
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RICHMOND NEWS LEADER RICHMOND, VA.
Date: 11-11-74 Edition: EVENING Author: DAVE RILEY Editor: JOHN E. LEARD Title: RICHARD MC COY
Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: RICHMOND
Being Investigated
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across the street on the second floor of a two-story home when McCoy and Walker came home about 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
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EX-GREEN BERET McCoy, 31, a former Sunday school teacher and Green Beret who flew a helicopter in Viet- nam, went to the front door of the house. Walker drove away, apparently to survey the neighborhood. "McCoy opened the front door and at that point an agent inside identified himself and told him to hold it and then to come in," said FBI spokesman John Coneys. "After about a split second, he pulled his revolver," Coneys said. "He got one shot off, and the agent returned fire. It blasted him right out the front door." McCoy's single shot missed the agent and imbedded itself in a wall. Coneys said McCoy was hit once by a shotgun blast.
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WEAPONS IN CAR Outside, Walker was just returning to the house when the shooting started, Coneys said. Walker, who had been added to the 10-most-wanted list less than a month ago, sped away, but was arrested minutes later. "Two units pulled him over at gunpoint," Coneys said. "He had two loaded weapons in the car, but he chose to surrender." Walker, 35, was taken to the Pmrtsmouth jail to await arraignment today. McCoy had been a Mormon Sunday school teacher and had attended Brigham Young University as a law enforce- ment major before becoming a Green Beret. [text cut off]
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45-YEAR SENTENCE But in April 1972, armed with a grenade, McCoy took over a United Air Lines 727 shortly af- ter the plane had left Denver for Los Angeles. The flight was diverted to San Francisco, where passengers were allow- ed to leave and $500,000 in ran- som and parachutes were plac- ed aboard. McCoy bailed out near Provo, Utah. He was arrested at his home in Provo three days later and all but $30 of the money was recovered. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. McCoy and Walker, along with two other inmates, fled from the federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa. on Aug. 10, smashing to freedom through two chain link fences in a com- mandeered garbage truck despite a deluge of bullets. The other two escapees were recap- tured a short time later. Both McCoy and Walker had been named in one federal bank robbery warrant involving a $15,000 holdup in the eastern North Carolina town of Pollocksville, — and agents in- dicated Walker may be charged [with/in] other bank robberies.
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CONVICTED SKYJACKER RICHARD MCCOY DIED IN A SHOOT-OUT IN THIS RENTED HOUSE [illegible]
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AP Wirephoto
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