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FT. WORTH SHOOTING
37-year old Robert Earl Gillis of Fort
Worth was fatally wounded last night after an
argument in a restaurant in the 31-hundred block
of South Riverside Drive.
Gillis, of 1012 East Davis, died in a local
hospital several hours after the shooting.
Officers are searching for a 40-year old manin connection with the shooting.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Fort Worth shooting], script, May 16, 1972, 8:25 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1509591/m1/1/?q=%221972-05-16%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.