Third set of remains found with gunshot wound in search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre graves [Video]

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 18 Black men were believed to be slain in the massacre according to, Oklahoma State archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck,

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“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.