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Onlookers examine gun shot hole in car from shooting. Advance store. Color. No sound
(WSLS Television, Roanoke, VA)

No spoken word. File footage after a confrontation on Main Street in downtown Salem. Witnesses claimed four or five boys argued with a black man outside an Advance store. One of the boys allegedly threw a cane at the man during the dispute and then fired several gunshots. 20-year-old Gary Russell Furrow was struck in the abdomen by one of the bullets and taken to the hospital. A Salem police officer arrived shortly after the incident and fired several shots at the group of boys as they drove away in a car.
About the film
  • Date: November 10, 1969
  • Sound: No
  • Duration: 00:45
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