{"id":3826,"date":"1962-04-03T04:03:48","date_gmt":"1962-04-03T04:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2014-10-10T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:23:45","slug":"father-of-5-fatally-shotgunned-in-tussle-at-elks-rest-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1962\/04\/03\/father-of-5-fatally-shotgunned-in-tussle-at-elks-rest-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of 5 Fatally Shotgunned At Elk’s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though he goes unmentioned in this Peoria Journal Star\u00a0<\/em>article, Richard Pryor and a musician-friend from Harold’s Club were at the Elk’s Club, a black fraternal society, on the night of this murder.<\/p>\n

They were about to leave through the front door when the bouncer, James King, advised them to stay back: there was a \u00a0man, Albert “Goodkid” Charles, outside the door with a shotgun, and he meant trouble. King himself went out the door and, while attempting to disarm Charles, was shot point-blank in the groin. He died on the steps of the club, asking “Goodkid, why did you shoot me?”<\/a><\/p>\n

The shooting was a tragedy for the family of King, a father of five and a leader in a local church, and a near-miss for young Richard. It also revealed the dark side of “Roarin’ Peoria,” where personal grievances were not infrequently settled through force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though he goes unmentioned in this Peoria Journal Star\u00a0article, Richard Pryor and a musician-friend from Harold’s Club were at the Elk’s Club, a black fraternal society, on the night of this murder. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,46,54,18],"tags":[274,345,166,273,425],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-young-man-young-comic","category-featured-document","category-richard-pryor","category-sin-city","tag-albert-goodkid-charles","tag-elks-club","tag-guns","tag-james-king","tag-richard-pryor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6456,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}