He had tossed only a few pieces back into the store when the rioters ganged him. He put up a terrific battle and got badly banged up; he's home in bed now. Somebody finally clipped him with a silver cake plate snatched from the window and I had to drag him into the store to save his life.

An Associated Press photograph is the only other evidence related to Sherloff's store. The store number, "2112 7th Ave," is visible above the door in the version published in the Los Angeles Times (but is cropped out in versions published in other newspapers). Remnants of signs, the distinctive window display, and the caption identify it as a jewelry store. Shattered glass is scattered in front of the windows, the right pane of which seems entirely smashed and the left pane to have a large whole in its center.

Sherloff does not appear in any records of those injured during the disorder. Of the four stores mentioned in Ferguson's Daily News story, only one appears in any other source (and the story included a sensational description of looting of Herbert's Blue Diamond Jewelry store that is contradicted by all the other mentions of that store). None of the arrests for looting linked to businesses occurred during this time. While some of the other arrests for looting may have come during this time, it seems unlikely. The New York Herald Tribune claimed "the first arrest for alleged looting" during the disorder came two blocks further north, around 10.10 PM, when Officer Irwin Young arrested Leroy Gillard. Frank Wells was arrested for breaking windows around five minutes after Sherloff jumped into his store window, but around the corner on West 125th Street, where the police were concentrated at this time. It would be another hour before Leroy Brown was arrested across 7th Avenue at the southern end of the block for allegedly urging people to follow his example and break store windows. But there are several other reports of attacks on stores in the three blocks of 7th Avenue north of 125th Street, suggesting that crowds first moved there in the hour or so prior to those arrests. But few, if any, police appear to have then been on these blocks of 7th Avenue when the crowds began to attack stores; certainly not enough to both protect stores and make arrests, so no arrests were made to bring the events into the legal system.

Given the time, many businesses in this area would still have been open, but the struggle between Sherloff and those attacking his store is the only reported instance of a violent clash between storeowners or staff and those attacking stores. Herman Young was struck by a brick thrown through his store window on Lenox Avenue early on March 20, but otherwise all those reported as being present took cover in the rear of their stores.

While the Daily News story reported that Sherloff "suffered heavy losses" from the looting, he appeared to have been able to remain in business, perhaps thanks to insurance: the MCCH business survey found a white-owned jewelry store at the address in the second half of 1935.