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Bertha Franklin, manager of the Hacienda Motel, told police that she shot and killed Cooke in self-defense because he had attacked her.
Police found Cooke's body in Franklin's apartment-office, clad only in a sports jacket and shoes, but no shirt, pants or underwear.
The official police record states that Franklin fatally shot Cooke who had checked in earlier that evening.
Franklin claimed that Cooke had broken into the manager's office-apartment in a rage, wearing nothing but a shoe and a sports coat demanding to know the whereabouts of a woman who had accompanied him to the hotel.
Franklin said that the woman was not in the office and that she told Cooke this, but the enraged Cooke did not believe her and violently grabbed her, demanding again to know the woman's whereabouts.
According to Franklin, she grappled with Cooke, the two of them fell to the floor, and she then got up and ran to retrieve her gun.
She said that she then fired at Cooke, in self-defense, because she feared for her life.
Cooke was struck once in the torso, and according to Franklin, he exclaimed, " Lady, you shot me ," before mounting a last charge at her.
She said that she beat him over his head with a broomstick before he finally fell, mortally wounded by the gunshot.
Franklin herself also told later that she fired the gun at least 30 times.

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