Third set of remains found with gunshot wound in search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre graves

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Third set of ******** found with gunshot wound in search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre graves

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A third set of ********

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has been found at Tulsa ********* in the search for graves of victims of the

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, according to a state official.

The ******** are one of three sets exhumed so far during the

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and were found in an area where 18 ****** men ******* in the massacre are believed to have been *******, Oklahoma State archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said in a statement on social media Friday.

“We have exhumed him, he is in the forensic lab and undergoing analysis,” on-site at Tulsa’s Oaklawn *********, Stackelbeck said.

The discovery comes nearly a month after the

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of ******** previously exhumed during the search for massacre victims were identified as World War I veteran C.L. Daniel from Georgia.

Forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield said that no gunshot wound was found in Daniel’s ********, but said the ******** were fragmented and a cause of ****** could not be determined.

The ******** exhumed during the current search are among 40 graves found, Stackelbeck said, and meet the criteria for how massacre victims were *******, based on newspaper articles at the time, ****** certificates and ******** home records.

“Those three individuals are ******* in ******-sized, wooden caskets so they have been removed from the ground and taken to our forensic facility on site,” Stackelbeck said.

Previous searches resulted in more than 120 sets of ******** being located and about two dozen were

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in Salt Lake City in an effort to help identify them.

On Thursday, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper

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to study a variety of reparations for survivors and descendants of the massacre and for the area of north Tulsa where it occurred.

The massacre took place over two days in 1921, a

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of ******* ********* that destroyed a community known as

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and ended with as many as 300 ****** people *******, thousands of ****** residents forced into internment camps overseen by the National Guard and more than 1,200 homes, businesses, schools and churches destroyed.

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