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2:30 AM to 3:00 AM
On Lenox Avenue and West 127th Street, where the flying glass that had injured William Brown a few minutes earlier indicated stores were still being attacked, Officer William Leahy saw Joseph Wade, a twenty-four-year-old Black man, coming out of Frank De Thomas’ candy store. The business had been closed since just before 10:00 PM. Over the course of the violence in this area of Lenox Avenue in the hours since, the display windows had been broken, the door forced open, and merchandise taken. The store was just off the avenue, at 101 West 127th Street, so Leahy was most likely stationed at the intersection rather than driving by in a radio car. He was close enough to arrest Wade. Leahy allegedly found several toy pistols worth sixty cents in his possession that De Thomas identified as coming from the store. Wade lived close by at 148 West 127th Street, so may have been among those on Lenox Avenue watching what was happening for some time.
While Wade remained on Lenox Avenue, others who had been on the streets were returning home. Fred Bain went to his apartment in 227 West 127th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, before he called for an ambulance. The forty-four-year-old man had lacerations on his forehead that he told the doctor who attended him he received during the disorder. Other residents hit by police batons or flying glass appear to have returned to their homes without seeking medical treatment from ambulances or at the hospital.