The Nation - News from April 18, 1989
A former Merrill Lynch stockbroker was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting his boss the day after being fired from the firm’s Boston office last year. Lonnie Gilchrist, 42, was immediately sentenced to life in prison for shooting Regional Vice President George Cook. An appeal in a first-degree murder case in Massachusetts is automatic. On April 7, 1988, Gilchrist shot Cook three times with a .22-caliber pistol as the executive sat behind his desk. As Cook crawled toward his door crying for help, witnesses said, Gilchrist shot him twice more.
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