Another witness account was told by the Dean of Howard University, Carter Woodson (also a black). Woodson had just left the school and was walking home at night near the Capitol. Under the streetlights, he recognized a white race riot moving down the street and could have seen him. Woodson hid behind a shop entryway and sat there as he witnessed the soldiers, sailors and marines rioting and chasing a black man who begged for mercy from the crowds. Explaining what he saw, Woodson remarked that this was the “most harrowing spectacle” he had ever witnessed (McWhirter 64). The mob did not listen to the black man pleading for mercy. When they caught up with him, the lifted him up into the air as if preparing to execute him. The soldiers then shot him several times and left him to bleed to death as they matched on to hunt for more black people. Woodson luckily hid and soon sneaked away before the rioting servicemen saw him.