{"id":3864,"date":"1968-09-20T19:58:37","date_gmt":"1968-09-20T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2013-06-21T22:35:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:35:47","slug":"2-women-entertainers-slain-in-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1968\/09\/20\/2-women-entertainers-slain-in-motel\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Women Entertainers Slain In Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, 1968, Arthur &#8220;Shoeshine&#8221; Anderson walked into the motel run by <a title=\"Bris Collins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/archive\/people\/bris-collins\/\">Bris Collins<\/a>\u00a0and demanded money from two women who, he claimed, owed him some. When they couldn&#8217;t or wouldn&#8217;t pay, he shot them both in the head and fled. Anderson had already been in trouble with the law, and the motel itself had been raided on a regular basis for housing prostitutes, but the intensity of the violence was shocking nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>The motel, like many of the Pryor family&#8217;s businesses, was run by the whole Collins family. His wife had the liquor license on the property and was the manager; her brother resided there. And like the Pryor&#8217;s businesses, the motel was both a legitimate business and a trading station for various forms of illicit business.<\/p>\n<p>In the interconnected world of black Peoria, &#8220;Shoeshine&#8221; had assorted ties to the Pryor family. He was himself a friend of Richard&#8217;s Uncle Dickie. And he was brother to &#8220;Big Irma&#8221; Anderson, who figured prominently (sometimes renamed &#8220;Big Bertha&#8221;) in Richard&#8217;s routine &#8220;Hank&#8217;s Place&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, 1968, Arthur &#8220;Shoeshine&#8221; Anderson walked into the motel run by Bris Collins\u00a0and demanded money from two women who, he claimed, owed him some. When they couldn&#8217;t or wouldn&#8217;t pay, he [&hellip;]<\/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":[360,62,46,18],"tags":[284,426,280,34],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-man-of-the-underworld","category-bris-collins","category-featured-document","category-sin-city","tag-arthur-shoeshine-anderson","tag-bris-collins","tag-murder","tag-prostitution"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","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=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}