Yeah, they shot him, shot him in the leg. Evidently they used bird-seed
because, from my understanding, some of the pellets are still inside, in
his leg. At that time, I thought, because the yellow cab was there, that
he got into the cab and went to the hospital, but I read in the
newspaper—somebody was doing a back [UNCLEAR] article—they
say that he got in his own Volkswagen and drove himself to the hospital.
When we saw this happen, Boykin and I fired on the vehicle because the
brothers who he was talking to panicked; they started screaming and
hollering and hiding behind the concrete because—they were fifteen years
old, fourteen or fifteen, very young brothers. This is the type of
people that we had up there guarding the church, young black men who
still had a long future supposedly. I figured at that time that things were going to get a little bit heavier, so
I told Boykin—at that time I used to call him [UNCLEAR]
—to try to go find some more people. I said, "Man, look, we got to have
some more brothers up here. It's getting too hot." So he took his
father's station wagon and then went to find some more brothers, but
they never got back because—he picked up one brother, and they got
stopped on Castle Street, Ninth and Castle somewhere, by the police, and
they were arrested for going armed during a state of emergency, or
something like that. The police took them to jail. They were coming up
there to help support the church. After that I don't even know who took
the Seventh and Nun post, but I went over on Sixth Street at the there,
and Steve then was still behind the church, and I was up there with
Bill. Now Bill changed posts with me—I don't know where Bill went at—I
took his position at Sixth Street. Richard McCoy was using the
binoculars to watch for cars. I stayed up there until 9:15 because …