Nathaniel Edmonds, Victim 17
Nathaniel Edmonds, was twenty-three years old, working as a welder and had served in the Army.
On July 24, 1967 Nathaniel’s death was reported to the police by a ten-year-old boy who witnessed the shooting and wrote down the license plate number of the car the assailants were driving.
Apparently there had been an altercation between Nathaniel and two men. Words were exchanged and one of the men pulled a shotgun from his car, shot Nathaniel and drove off. Nathaniel's father, Valen Edmonds, remarked that his son wasn't the type of person to go looking for trouble. He was brought up in the Church and believed in God.
Nathaniel was taken to Detroit General Hospital where he was supposedly to undergo surgery. His brother, Monzie, rushed to the hospital after receiving word of his brother’s shooting and demanded to see him. But Nathaniel was already in the county morgue, marked "John Doe." The police later arrested a young man named, Shugar, and charged him with first-degree murder while the family could do nothing except hope for justice when his killer was brought to trial.
This and other stories maybe encompassed in the Summer ’67 documentary series.