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Krim Shamhal assaulted
Krim-Shamhal was assaulted on the edge of a cluster of assaults and attacks on stores on 7th Avenue from 121st to 125th Streets, suggesting the presence of crowds on the street. He was not the only white resident of the blocks south of 125th Street assaulted, suggesting the presence of whites among those drawn to the streets by the disorder – where they became targets. The timing of that violence is mostly unknown, but the assault appears to have come before much of the other violence, and not long after crowds began to spread from 125th Street.
The record of the ambulance call-out is the only evidence of the assault. Krim-Shamhal’s race is not made clear in that record, but he appears in the 1930 census residing at the same address on 119th Street. Born in Russia, he had arrived in the US in 1923.