Jesse Sistrunk allegedly fatally shoots John Moultrie
- Title of event
- Jesse Sistrunk allegedly fatally shoots John Moultrie
- Type of event
- Killed
- Address of event
- Jesse Sistrunk allegedly fatally shoots John Moultrie Happened Primarily at W 117th St & Lenox Ave
- Jesse Sistrunk allegedly fatally shoots John Moultrie Happened Secondarily at 227, W 141st St
- Report on event
- Jesse Sistrunk allegedly fatally shoots John Moultrie Main report referencing event John Moultrie against Jesse Sistrunk
- Start date / time
- May 21, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Unknown
- Description
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While engaged in an altercation with the defendant [Sistrunk], just east of the south-east crosswalk at West 117th Street and Lenox Avenue, one John Moultrie was “shot in the left forearm, chest and heart… caus[ing] his death before arrival at Harlem Hospital.” The defendant was arrested three days later at 227 West 141st Street. Although he admitted to having been “struggling with said Moultrie when he was shot,” he alleged that the shot had come from an unknown man.