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August 3, 2024 at 10:26 AM. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A third set of remains with a gunshot wound has been found at Tulsa cemetery in the search for graves of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre ...
Updated August 19, 2024 at 1:51 PM. Three more victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, who were exhumed as part of the city's ongoing investigation into graves from the massacre, were found with ...
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...
Died. February 8, 2024 (aged 16) Owasso, Oklahoma, U.S. Nex Benedict (January 11, 2008 – February 8, 2024) [ 1 ] was a 16-year-old non-binary American high school student who died the day after a physical altercation in the girls' restroom of their [ note 1 ] high school. Investigators later determined Benedict's death was a suicide caused by ...
1⁄2 years) On April 2, 2015, 43-year-old African-American Eric Courtney Harris was fatally shot during an undercover sting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as Harris ran from authorities unarmed. [ 1][ 2][ 3] While Harris was being subdued, Tulsa County Reserve Deputy Robert Charles Bates, 73, claims he confused his personal weapon, a Smith & Wesson .357 ...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit in which survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre sought reparations for actions taken against their community. The vote was 8-1 ...
Wanda Jean Allen (August 17, 1959 – January 11, 2001) was a murderer who was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29, her longtime girlfriend. Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [1] She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in the United States of ...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit arguing the remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre should be compensated by the city for damages Wednesday, dealing a blow to their ...