 A total of 34 people were killed, 25 of them black and most at the hands of the white police force; 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them black; and property valued at $2 million ($30.4 million in 2020 US dollars) was destroyed.Most of the riot took place in the black area of Paradise Valley, the poorest neighborhood of the city.At the time, white commissions mistakenly attributed the cause of the riot to black people and youths.