SinisterCrimes

Victim

Billy Clanton

Born
1862
Died
26 October 1881, aged about 19
Record
Wikidata Q3640035 · Wikipedia

Victim in The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Ike's younger brother, aged 19; killed in the fight.

1881 · Tombstone, Arizona Territory · Acquitted

About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Virgil Earp pistol-whips and arrests an armed Ike Clanton; Wyatt Earp strikes Tom McLaury in the street.

  2. In the afternoon gunfight beside Fly's studio, Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury are killed.

  3. Justice Wells Spicer opens the preliminary hearing on Ike Clanton's murder complaint.