A man sentenced to 30 years for his role in a high-profile robbery that left a 73-year-old grandfather and Vietnam vet dead has been given an additional four years in prison for helping to kidnap and hold another inmate for ransom while awaiting trial in the Cook County jail.
In July 2021, just two months after Frank Harris received juvenile probation for another vehicular hijacking, he and 17-year-old DuShawn Williams tried to carjack Vietnam vet Keith Cooper in a strip mall parking lot at 1236 East 53rd Street, prosecutors said.
Cooper, a doting grandfather about to celebrate his 74th birthday, got out of his vehicle and walked toward a CVS when Williams approached him from behind and snatched the keys from his hand. Cooper’s key fob fell to the ground, and Harris picked it up…