Patrick Cooper

How they died

Suicide

Winnsboro Police Chief Lester Thomas said a man believed to have killed two sisters shot himself in front of investigators. Thomas said said the first officers on the scene found one victim, Morgan Love, bleeding in the front yard of the residence. "She had been shot multiple times, Thomas said. "We also identified another person, Patrick Cooper, who was seen standing over her with a handgun." Thomas said as officers arrived and began exiting their other, Cooper, 18, shot himself. Officers then reportedly entered the residence, which is across the street from the Franklin Parish School Board Office, and found another female victim, Stephanie Love, with gunshot wounds in her back. Cooper and Stephanie Love were pronounced dead at the scene, and Morgan Love died a short time later at Franklin Medical Center.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Patrick Cooper, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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