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Name | Race | Age | Date | Description of Death |
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Jason Jones | Black | 15 | July 23, 1967 | Was sitting under a tree when a gang of white males were running from the police and exchanging fire; he was hit in the chest. |
Willie Hunter | Black | 26 | July 23, 1967 | Found in the basement of Brown's Drug Store; believed to have died when the store burned down.[102] |
Prince Williams | Black | 32 | July 23, 1967 | Also found asphyxiated in the basement of Brown's Drug Store.[102] |
Sheren George | White | 23 | July 24, 1967 | Shot while in the car driven by her husband (Ross) as they tried to flee from a group of black men beating a white man. |
Clifton Pryor | White | 23 | July 24, 1967 | Mistaken for a sniper while trying to keep sparks from a neighboring fire off the roof of his apartment building; shot by a National Guardsman. |
Herman Ector | Black | 30 | July 24, 1967 | Shot by a security guard while attempting to intervene between the guard and a group of rioters. |
Fred Williams | Black | 49 | July 24, 1967 | Electrocuted when he stepped on a downed power line. |
Daniel Jennings | Black | 36 | July 24, 1967 | Broke into Stanley's Patent Medicine and Package Store; shot by the owner Stanley Meszezenski. |
Robert Beal | Black | 49 | July 24, 1967 | Shot by a Detroit police officer at a burned-out auto parts store. |
Joseph Chandler | Black | 34 | July 24, 1967 | Shot in the back by Detroit police while engaged in looting at the Food Time Market. |
Herman Canty | Black | 46 | July 24, 1967 | Observed loading merchandise from the rear door of the Bi-Lo Supermarket. Police fired several rounds at the truck until it stopped, and they found Canty dead inside. |
Alfred Peachlum | Black | 35 | July 24, 1967 | As A&P supermarket was being looted, Peachlum was inside with a shiny object in his hand. Police opened fire. The object turned out to be a piece of meat wrapped in shiny paper. |
Alphonso Smith | Black | 35 | July 24, 1967 | The police version was that Smith and four other men were cornered while looting the Standard Food Market. Other sources[who?] state that an officer fired through a window. |
Nathaniel Edmonds | Black | 23 | July 24, 1967 | Richard Shugar, a 24-year-old white male, accused Edmonds of breaking into a store, and shot him in the chest with a shotgun. Shugar was convicted of second-degree murder. |
Charles Kemp | Black | 35 | July 24, 1967 | Took five packs of cigars and was observed removing a cash register from Borgi's Market. He ran, police officers gave chase, and fired at him. |
Richard Sims | Black | 35 | July 24, 1967 | Shot after he attempted to break into the Hobby Bar. |
John Leroy | Black | 30 | July 24, 1967 | A passenger in a vehicle upon which National Guard and police opened fire. Police stated that the vehicle was trying to break through a roadblock. |
Julius Dorsey | Black | 55 | July 25, 1967 | Worked as a security guard; shot by a National Guardsman who was pursuing suspected looters. |
Carl Smith | White | 30 | July 25, 1967 | A firefighter; shot by a black male while attempting to organize firefighter units to fight several fires at Mack and St. Jean. |
Emanuel Cosby | Black | 26 | July 25, 1967 | Broke into N&T Market; police arrived just as he was making his escape. Cosby ran and was shot while running away with his loot. |
Henry Denson | Black | 27 | July 25, 1967 | Passenger in a car with two other black males; they encountered a roadblock erected by National Guardsmen; guardsmen shot at vehicle for trying to break the roadblock. |
Jerome Olshove | White | 27 | July 25, 1967 | The only policeman killed in the riot. Olshove was shot in a scuffle with looters outside an A&P supermarket. |
William Jones | Black | 28 | July 25, 1967 | Broke into a liquor store, was caught and attempted escape. Police ordered him to halt, but he continued to run and they shot him. |
Ronald Evans | Black | 24 | July 25, 1967 | Shot with William Jones in liquor store looting. |
Frank Tanner | Black | 19 | July 25, 1967 | Broke into a store with his friends and was shot while trying to escape a National Guardsman. |
Arthur Johnson | Black | 36 | July 25, 1967 | Shot inside looted pawn shop. |
Perry Williams | Black | 36 | July 25, 1967 | Shot with Johnson inside pawn shop. |
Jack Sydnor | Black | 38 | July 25, 1967 | Fired shots out of the window of his third-floor apartment. Shot police officer Roger Poike when the police arrived to investigate. Was killed by police. |
Tanya Blanding | Black | 4 | July 26, 1967 | Died as a result of gunfire from a National Guard tank stationed in front of her house. Guardsmen stated that they were responding to sniper fire from the second floor. |
William N Dalton | Black | 19 | July 26, 1967 | Police report stated that he was an arsonist and was attempting to flee from the police. |
Helen Hall | White | 51 | July 26, 1967 | Hall, a native of Illinois, was visiting Detroit on business and stayed at the Harlan House Motel. Hearing tanks rolling by, she peeked through the drape window to see what was going on. She was shot by National Guardsmen who mistook her as a sniper. |
Larry Post | White | 26 | July 26, 1967 | Post was a Corporal[103] in the National Guard. After an exchange of gunfire between National Guardsmen and a car containing three men, Post was found with a gunshot wound to the stomach. |
Aubrey Pollard | Black | 19 | July 26, 1967 | Killed by Detroit Police Officer Ronald August after a group of policemen and National Guardsmen stormed the Algiers Motel in search of snipers. |
Carl Cooper | Black | 17 | July 26, 1967 | Killed by unknown person at the Algiers Motel. |
Fred Temple | Black | 18 | July 26, 1967 | Killed by Detroit Police Officer Robert Paille in the Algiers Motel. |
George Tolbert | Black | 20 | July 26, 1967 | Killed as he ran past a National Guard checkpoint at Dunedin and LaSalle Streets, when a bullet fired by a Guardsman hit him. |
Albert Robinson | Black | 38 | July 26, 1967 | The police report stated the guardsmen came under fire from snipers and returned fire. At the end of the exchange, Robinson was dead. |
Krikor "George" Messerlian | White | 68 | July 27, 1967 | A 68-year-old Armenian immigrant business owner; beaten to death by Darryl McCurtis, a 20-year-old black male, after Messerlian confronted black looters. |
Roy Banks | Black | 46 | July 27, 1967 | Banks was a deaf-mute walking to a bus stop to go to work; he was shot by Guardsmen who mistook him for an escaping looter. |
Ernest Roquemore | Black | 19 | July 28, 1967 | Shot by an Army paratrooper and declared dead on arrival at Detroit General Hospital. The soldier had been aiming at another youth who was unharmed.[104] |
John Ashby | White | 26 | August 4, 1967 | A Detroit firefighter; electrocuted by a high-tension wire that had fallen while he was trying to put out a fire started by rioters. |
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