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California’s Huntington Library Gets Rare Slavery Documents
3 Killed In Shooting At Oklahoma Walmart
DUNCAN, Oklahoma — Two men and a woman were fatally shot Monday morning outside a Walmart store in southwestern Oklahoma, po- lice said.
Two victims were shot in- side a car and the third was in the parking lot outside the store in Duncan, Police Chief Danny Ford said. It was unclear if the shooter was among the dead.
Two bodies covered with sheets were visible in the parking lot Monday after- noon. One body was in the driver’s seat of a red, two- door car. The other body was lying on the ground next to the vehicle.
Bullet holes were visible in the car’s windshield. Police said in a Facebook post that a handgun was found at the scene.
Authorities from multiple agencies including the Okla- homa State Bureau of Inves- tigation, the state highway patrol and the Stephens County sheriff’s office were investigating the scene.
Police are also looking for
Three people, including a shooter, are dead following a shooting in Duncan, Okla., on Nov. 18, 2019.
witnesses to the shooting, Ford said.
Aaron Helton, of Dun- can, said he was parking out- side the Walmart where he planned to buy groceries when he heard about nine gunshots.
“I arrived and there were three bodies,” Helton said.
No staff members were involved in the shooting and the store was not evacuated, Walmart spokeswoman LeMia Jenkins said in an
email.
“This was an isolated in-
cident in the parking lot and was not an active shooter sit- uation,” Jenkins said.
Duncan is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City. The Walmart is in a commercial center that includes a sporting goods store and a dollar store along U. S. Highway 81, the main road that passes through Duncan heading south to- ward Texas.
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
SAN MARINO, Calif. — Southern California’s Hunt- ington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens has acquired rare documents shedding light on anti-slavery efforts taking place before and during the Civil War
The institution announced Wednesday it has acquired the ledgers of Quaker aboli- tionist Zachariah Taylor Shugart, who turned his Michigan farm into an under- ground railroad stop for peo- ple fleeing slavery.
Shugart, who kept metic- ulous records on everything,
documented the names of 137 people, including families, he helped escape.
Officials say such records are rare because people who helped the enslaved knew they were breaking the law and rarely kept records.
The Huntington also ac- quired documents from West Virginia’s Dickinson & Shrewsbury saltworks, in- cluding bills of sale and other papers detailing the lives of slaves.
The papers were purchased at separate auctions.
Prices were not disclosed.
Chicago 18-Month-Old Missing
Chicago police are search- ing for 18-month-old Kay- dense Brooks who was reportedly last seen with her grandfather.
According to CBS2, the 18- month-old was last seen in the Kenwood neighborhood at 4700 S. Greenwood Ave.
Police believe it is possible she was on public transporta- tion with her grandfather.
Brooks was last seen wearing a purple snow suit, brown Ugg boots and riding in a pink stroller.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Area Cen- tral SVU at 312-747-8380.
KAYDENSE BROOKS
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