Hide Article Text (OCR)
Militant Graduate Shot In HoustonHOUSTON (UPI) — The only white youth among the five persons wounded by police gungire in a ghetto shootout said Monday the police fired at him without warning as soon as he stepped into the street.The leader of the black militant organization People's Party II died in a hospital three hours after he was wounded in the stomach during the Sunday night gunfight. He was identified as Carl B. Hampton, 21, no relation to Black Panther Fred Hampton slain last year when police raided his Chicago apartment.Three other blacks and Roy Bartee Haile Jr., 24, of Dallas, were wounded in the gun battle with the 250 policemen. No police officers were hurt.HAILE, A GRADUATE ofSouthern Methodist University in Dallas, was a leader of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at SMU. He came to Houston last year and joined the John Brown Revolutionary League, an affiliate of the Rainbow coalition, which includes People's Party II and the militant Mexican-American youth organization.Haile said he was inside the headquarters of People's Party II when a man came into the room and told the militants white policemen with high powered rifles were on top of the three story St. John’s Baptist Church across the street.HAILE SAID HE then heard shots and ran into the street where he was told Hampton had been shot. He said he was shot at as soon as he appeared in the doorway but would not say if he was carrying a weapon at the time. He did say “quite a few” of the 50 persons inside the headquarters were armed when the shooting started.“We just weren't armed well enough,” Haile said.Haile said he began running down the street to help Hampton but had to seek cover behind a parked caK A bullet hit him in the left arm and he dropped into a gutter. ^“I ran back toward the office and I was bleeding very badly,” he said from his hospital bed. “Bullets were bouncing off the sidewalks. There must have been four or five people shooting at me.“THERE WASN'T ANY warning,” Haile said. “They didn’t ask us to come out with ourhands up or clear the streets. They came and they attacked. It®was like a military maneuver.”“The police department made every effort to prevent this,” Police Chief Herman Short said.
Newspaper Details
Dallas Summer Campus
Dallas, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1970
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Meagan P.
USA 04 Dec 2022
Other Publications Near Dallas, Texas
Dallas Evening Journal
Dallas Times Herald
Dallas Morning News
Dallas Journal
West Plano People
