A second body of a possible victim of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has been found to have a gunshot wound, according to the city.
"Forensic anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield discovered that one of the three sets of remains exhumed last week contained one victim with a gunshot wound," according to a statement late Friday from city spokesperson Carson Colvin.
A portion of the bullet was removed the the head of the remains, according to the statement. The person's race and whether the remains are those of a massacre victim are not yet known.The remains were in a plain casket and are believed to be that of an adult male, matching information in reports from 1921, and were in the area in Oaklawn Cemetery where 18 massacre victims were reportedly buried.
The current excavation of the cemetery in the search for victims of the 1921 Race Massacre began Oct. 26 and has uncovered 26 unmarked graves. The work is expected to continue through Nov. 18.A search for the graves of massacre victims began in 2020 and resumed last year with nearly three dozen coffins recovered.
None of the remains have been identified or confirmed as victims of the massacre, one of the worst known examples of white mob violence against Black Americans in U.S. history.
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