Scientists excavating Tulsa race massacre site find skeleton with bullet wounds

Scientists investigating the 1921 massacre of Black people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have found the remains of an African-American man with gunshot wounds to the head and shoulders.

They discovered the body in October while they were excavating the Black section of the Oaklawn cemetery, searching for mass graves left over from the 1921 white supremacist mob attack, which killed roughly 300 people.

“Right now,” Kristi Williams, a member of the Tulsa Mass Graves Public Oversight Committee, told The Washington Post, “the priority is to find out who these remains belong to and why were they there undocumented.”