The hospital story was told to Pepper by a man named Johnton Shelby,
whose mother, Lula Mae Shelby, had been a surgical aide at St. Joseph’s
that night. Shelby told Pepper the story
of how his mother came home the morning after the shooting (she hadn’t
been allowed to go home the night before) and gathered the family
together. He remembers her saying to them, “I can’t believe they took
his life.”