50 years ago murders in commune on Virginia Park?

[Zozo]

Does anyone remember the incident when black militants raided the wrong house on Virginia Park and murdered some students or hippies? At least one of them was tried and imprisoned for the tragedy. Once upon a time I was able to locate information regarding this on the web, but am having zero luck now.

White liberals have no memory of this event. For them it never happened. Because of the circumstances [race] of the aggressors in this attack, they simply do not care and have chosen to forget. There is and will be no scholarship, books, movies, museum exhibits, and no symposia at the University of Michigan about the Virginia Park Massacre.

[MikeM]

White liberals have no memory of this event. For them it never happened. Because of the circumstances [race] of the aggressors in this attack, they simply do not care and have chosen to forget. There is and will be no scholarship, books, movies, museum exhibits, and no symposia at the University of Michigan about the Virginia Park Massacre.

You sound like a buffoon. It was an armed robbery on Easter Sunday. One kid visiting from northern Michigan was killed when he tried to silence his dog. The four robbers were arrested days later. Three plead guilty and one was found guilty after a trial. They all got life.

[Henry Whalley]

...One kid visiting from northern Michigan was killed when he tried to silence his dog.

Right, I remember now. Thanks.

In addition to the murder victim, others were held in terror at gunpoint for hours IIRC. I believe it was not a simple robbery. Rather the perps were black militant vigilantes who took it upon themselves to clean the neighborhood of drug houses. Possibly an offshoot of the Black Panthers. But Oops! They raided the wrong house. And everything became FUBAR.

I just can't find a single word about it on the interweb. Stuff used to be there, but possibly was expurgated like photos in the Soviet Encyclopedia.