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is this the murder on the number 8 rout in the 1960s
Thomas Arthur Bates, aged 46,
[5] ran a corner newsagents shop at 196
Lee Bank Road (now Lee Bank Middleway) in Birmingham's
Edgbaston district.
[6] At 6:30 pm on Saturday, 2 June 1962, a 19-year-old Jamaican baker called Oswald Augustus Grey, of Canon Hill Road in that city, carried out a robbery at the shop, during which event he shot Bates in the upper chest.
[6] Grey then made his escape by a number 8 (
Inner Circle) bus.
[6][7] Bates' mother, who had been in the living area at the back of the shop, heard a large bang and found him collapsed on the floor. Finding him collapsed on the floor, alone in the shop, she initially believed he had suffered a heart attack or stroke.
[5] He was reportedly dead before he reached the city's
General Hospital,
[6] but it was not until he reached there that it was realised that he had been shot.
[5] The bullet had passed through his heart, lungs and liver.
[5]