Original sentence: An eyewitness account claims that the violence started when a white man was killed while trying to wrestle a gun from a black man.During the riots, 39 people were officially reported killed, 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed, and $1.8 million (nearly $17 million after adjustment for inflation) in property damage.The Tulsa Race Riot, also known as the Tulsa Race War or the Greenwood Riot was a large-scale civil disorder lasting less than a day in the segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA in 1921
Edited sentence: An  eyewitness account claims that the violence started when a white man was killed while trying to wrest a gun from a black man.The Tulsa Race Riot was the most devastating race riot in US history in terms of lives lost