James ‘Buster’ Corley, co-founder of Dave & Buster’s chain, dead at 72

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Published 04.01.2023

James ‘Buster’ Corley, co-founder of Dave & Buster’s chain, dead at 72

DALLAS –

EDITOR’S NOTE — This story contains dialogue of suicide.

James “Buster” Corley, a co-founder of the restaurant and leisure chain Dave & Buster’s, has died. He was 72.

Corley died Monday in a Dallas hospital after police had been known as to his house within the Texas metropolis, in accordance with his household and police. Dave & Buster’s introduced Corley’s dying in a press release on Twitter on Wednesday, however its trigger and method had been nonetheless being reviewed by native authorities.

The concept for Dave & Buster’s was born within the late Seventies when Corley was operating a restaurant in Dallas close to a business operated by David Corriveau that provided leisure and video games for adults, in accordance with the corporate’s web site. The pair teamed as much as open their first institution providing eating and video games in 1982 and the business has since grown to have scores of places throughout the United States.

Police say officers responded to a capturing name at Corley’s house in east Dallas Monday and located a person with “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound” who was taken to the hospital and later died.

The Dallas Police Department declined to call the sufferer within the capturing, citing a coverage towards figuring out individuals who could have died by suicide. Officers are persevering with to research the dying.

Corley’s daughter, Kate Corley, confirmed his dying to WFAA-TV however requested for privateness for her household. She informed the broadcaster that Corley just lately suffered a stroke that “caused severe damage to the communication and personality part of his brain.”

The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office didn’t instantly reply to questions on Corley’s dying Wednesday. The workplace informed the Dallas Morning News Tuesday night that his dying remains to be being examined.

Corriveau died in 2015 on the age of 63.

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