had decided to shoot King's wife instead because she was near him. He also killed one of the church's deacons, Edward Boykin, in the attack and wounded retired schoolteacher Jimmie Mitchell in the neck. King and Boykin were rushed to the nearby Grady Memorial Hospital. Officials announced King was "barely alive" when she arrived at the hospital. Boykin was pronounced dead on arrival. King died shortly afterward from a gunshot wound to the right of her head. Alberta King was interred at the South-View Cemetery in Atlanta. Martin Luther King Sr. died of a heart attack on November 11, 1984, and was interred next to her. Assassin's conviction Chenault was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. The sentence was upheld on appeal. He was later resentenced to life in prison, partially as a result of the King family's opposition to the death penalty. On August 3, 1995, he suffered a stroke, and was taken to a hospital. On August 19, he died aged 44 from complications from his stroke. Notes References The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951 (University of California Press, 1992) Introduction The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Warner Book, 1998) Chapter 1 edited by Clayborne Carson Martin Luther King, Jr., "Autobiography of Religious Development," 22 November 1950 Daddy King and Me: Memories of the Forgotten Father of the Civil Rights Movement. Continental Shelf Publishing, 2009; Chapter Four, p. 69. External links Stanford University biography of Alberta King African American registry article on the death of Alberta King The King Center biography of Martin Luther King, Jr 1904 births 1974 deaths African-American Christians American murder victims Baptists from Georgia (U.S. state) People from Atlanta Spelman College alumni Hampton University alumni People murdered in Georgia (U.S. state) Deaths by firearm in Georgia (U.S. state) Alberta Williams Murdered African-American people 1974 murders in the United States Burials at South-View Cemetery