Multiple people, including a seven-year-old girl, were wounded when gunfire broke out.

On July 14, 1919, hundreds of white boys 16 to 19 years old converged on Garfield Park.

A seven-year-old onlooker, Charlotte Pieper, received a flesh wound from stray buckshot.

[1] This uprising was one of several incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called American Red Summer of 1919.

The Summer consisted of terrorist attacks on black communities, and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties.