Are any of the actors dead from movie Cooley High Who?

Answer 1

According to Jet Magazine, Norman Gibson, who played Robert in Cooley High, was shot and killed by two young men while he was watching a dice game in 1976. A month earlier Norman had shot at a woman and missed. A month later, the woman's boyfriend and another man shot and killed Norman while he was watching a dice game. He died one year after the movie.