Every day in the U.S. about 108 people are shot dead in one way or another. At GunMemorial.org we try to post pages for all of these people even though the circumstances of their deaths can be drastically different.

Franklin M. Short, age 71

Fatally shot on August 3, 2015 in Powhatan, Virginia.

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