Killing of Walter Mills in Georgia in 1933

Incident

Case summary

Walter Mills (1908-1933), a laborer, was killed by patrolman E.D. Ellison in Atlanta, Georgia. Ellison and patrolman M.V. Mose claimed that they surprised Mills and another Black man in the act of robbing a grocery store, and that Ellison fatally shot Mills when Mills came at him with a knife.

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Perpetrator group type: police

Date of incident: 1933-02-09
Location: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
Location type: private space - commercial
Allegation against victim: breaking into a store

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