Part 45, page 246
Document date 11 November 1974
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 45 p. 246 (DB Cooper-18451), News clipping, dated 11 Nov 1974 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-45/pages/246
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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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DB Cooper-18451