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The Algiers Motel at 8301 Woodward Avenue [7] near the Virginia Park district was a black-owned business, owned by Sam Gant and McUrant Pye. It was one of three motels in Detroit owned by Gant and Pye, the others being the Alamo, at Alfred and Woodward, and the Rio Grande, on West Grand near Grand River. [8]
A historic marker was dedicated Friday, July 26, 2024 in Detroit to remember the deaths of Auburey Pollard, 19, Carl Cooper, 17, and Fred Temple, 18, whose bodies were found in the Algiers Motel ...
The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city's bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A ...
John Hersey's 1968 nonfiction book The Algiers Motel Incident is a true crime account of an incident that occurred during the riots, and the 2017 film Detroit, written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, was a dramatization based on that incident. Survivors of the incident participated in the production of the film.
Algiers Motel incident: Detroit: 1967-07-25/26: 3: Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit: Robison family murders: Good Hart: 1968-06-25: 6: Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at cottage [3] Hazelwood massacre: Detroit: 1971-06-14: 8
The bus the group gets on is attacked by rioters, and, in the ensuing chaos, they get split up. Larry, the lead singer, and his friend, Fred, rent a room in the nearby Algiers Motel—in a detached annex building—to get off the streets. They meet two young white women, Julie and Karen, who introduce them to Carl, Lee, Aubrey, and Michael.
A man dubbed the “I-65 killer” and the “Days Inn killer” after targeting women who worked at hotels along the Midwest highway in the late 1980s has finally been identified, police said.
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