Dunphy Attacker Gets 14 Years

Frederick Cole, the only one of three defendants convicted in the 1983 shooting of Channel 7 anchorman Jerry Dunphy, was sentenced today to 14 years and eight months in state prison by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige.

Cole, 24, of Los Angeles was convicted of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery, stemming from the late-night incident in which a car full of assailants opened fire on Dunphy’s Rolls-Royce at a stop sign outside KABC-TV’s studios in Hollywood. Dunphy and Sandra Marshall, a makeup artist whom Dunphy has since married, were wounded.