Otto Blackwell

Name: Otto Blackwell
Birth Name: Otto Blackwell
Hometown: Portland, Oregon, USA
Birthplace: Marion, South Carolina, USA
Died: 1953-07-19 (Age:38)
Height: 169cm
Reach: 192cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

According to a news item in the July 20, 1953 edition of the Pittsburgh Press on Newspapers.com, the police reported that Otto Blackwell, 42 years of age and a "former Hill District boxer," was shot five times and killed by his 19-year-old wife, Velma, during a quarrel in their apartment at 1 a.m. yesterday (July 19, 1953). She told the police that the shooting took place due to a series of quarrels over his beating of their only child. In 1945, Otto Blackwell had been acquitted of shooting another boxer, "Seebee" Thomas, with a pistol on the grounds of self-defense.

According to his death certificate in digital form in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964 database on Ancestry.com, one Otto Blackwell, a 38-year-old "Colored" married man, had been born on June 6, 1915, in South Carolina and died on July 19, 1953, in Mercy Hospital after being shot in the thigh and abdomen. At the time of his death, he was working for the Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical Company.