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Michael 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. Other white residents of the blocks south of 125th Street were among those assaulted, likely after being drawn to the streets by the disorder – where they became targets. The timing of that violence was mostly unknown, but the assaults appears to have come before much of the other violence as crowds began to spread from 125th Street.
The hospital record of the ambulance call-out was the only evidence of the assault. Krim-Shamhal’s race was not made clear in that record, but he appeared in the 1930 census residing at the same address on 119th Street. Born in Russia, he had arrived in the US in 1923.