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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Wilmont Hendricks shot

Around 1.30 AM, Wilmont Hendricks, a twenty-five-year-old Black man, was shot on Lenox Avenue near 128th Street. He was some distance from his home, which was almost twenty blocks to the north on 146th Street. No details survive of the circumstances of Hendricks’ injury: the hospital record noted that he had been shot in “in some unknown manner,” while newspapers only reported he had been shot. There was considerable disorder on the blocks of Lenox Avenue north of 125th Street around this time, including other assaults and looting. The outbreak of looting led police to begin shooting more indiscriminantly than earlier in the disorder, and it is likely that Hendricks was shot by police.

An ambulance attended Hendricks, whose injury was sufficiently serious for him to be taken to the hospital. While the hospital recorded his wound as being in his left shoulder, only the HN echoed that report, with AA, Am, AW, HT, NJG, and NYP instead locating the gunshot in his chest, and the NYDN, NYJ, and NYT reporting it was in in his back.

The hospital record did not identify Hendricks' race, but the newspaper reports did. Three of the five other men shot and wounded in the disorder were black, one of unknown race, and one white police officer.

No one was arrested for shooting Hendricks, as was the case with all of those shot and wounded (Detective Campo’s alleged assailant was shot and killed).
 

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