Eli David Junkins

First Name: Eli
Middle Name(s): David
Last Name: Junkins
Sex: 
Male
Age Descriptor: 
6 or 7
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Eli David Jenkins came to his death by being shot with a small single barrelled shot gun in the hands of Leslie Martin a colored boy some 16 or 17 years old. . .the said Leslie Martin did not intend or had any idea of the gun going off or doing the boy any injury whatever and believe it was entirely accidental

COD Short Description: 
shot accidentally by 17 year old
Original Record: 
2442

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