Oklahoma State officials confirmed on Monday, a third set of remains with a gunshot wound has been found at Tulsa cemetery.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma state officials confirmed on Monday a third set of remains with a gunshot wound has been found at Tulsa cemetery.
The current search is the continued efforts for locating the graves of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, according to a state official.
The remains are one of three sets exhumed and were found during the latest search in an area where eighteen Black men were believed to be slain in the massacre according to, Oklahoma State archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck,
“We have exhumed him, he is in the forensic lab and undergoing analysis,” on-site at Tulsa's Oaklawn Cemetery, Stackelbeck said.
The discovery comes nearly a month after the first identification of remains previously exhumed during the search for massacre victims were identified as World War I veteran C.L. Daniel from Georgia.
3rd set of remains with bullet wounds found with possible ties to 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Image courtesy Associated Press3rd set of remains with bullet wounds found with possible ties to 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Image courtesy Associated Press
Forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield said that no gunshot wound was found in Daniel’s remains, but said the remains were fragmented and a cause of death could not be determined.
The remains exhumed during the current search are among 40 graves found, Stackelbeck said, and meet the criteria for how massacre victims were buried, based on newspaper articles at the time, death certificates and funeral home records.
“Those three individuals are buried in adult-sized, wooden caskets so they have been removed from the ground and taken to our forensic facility on site,” Stackelbeck said.
Previous searches resulted in more than 120 sets of remains being located and about two dozen were sent to Intermountain Forensic in Salt Lake City in an effort to help identify them.
Last week, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper announced a new committee to study a variety of reparations for survivors and descendants of the massacre and for the area of north Tulsa where it occurred.
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