wounded Blackburn with a shotgun. In May 1974, six SLA members sought refuge in Los Angeles. There was an SLA shootout with the LAPD at a house there. DeFreeze committed suicide as the structure burned down around them. Soltysik, Perry and three other founding members of the SLA also died that day. References External links Marcus A. Foster Education Institute 1923 births 1973 deaths 1973 murders in the United States 20th-century American educators American murder victims Assassinated educators People from Athens, Georgia People from Oakland, California Educators from Philadelphia School superintendents in California People murdered in California Deaths by firearm in California Murdered African-American people Male murder victims Crimes in Oakland, California African-American history in Oakland, California Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California) Murder in the San Francisco Bay Area American terrorism victims Oakland Unified School District 20th-century African-American educators