Mark Essex
Mark Essex Navy ID.
Fires set by Essex in hotel.
View of hotel and helicopter.
New Orleans police officers fire into a concrete cubicle atop the
Howard Johnson hotel in downtown New Orleans, where they believed
snipers were hiding, on Jan. 7, 1973. Mark Essex was holed up in the
hotel and killed seven people, among them three police officers,
before being killed by police sharpshooters from a marine helicopter.
Drainpipe concealed sniper.
Mark Essex's body on roof.
Mark Essex's body on roof.
Mark Essex's body on roof.
Mark Essex's body on roof.
Black Panther Party meeting.
Racist graffiti on Essex's wall.
Racist graffiti on Essex's wall.
Essex's warning letter.
Chief Clarence Giarrusso
Marine Lt. Chuck Pitman
Police victims
Cadet Alfred Harrell, killed.
Officer Philip Coleman, killed.
Officer Edwin Hosli,
killed.
Officer Paul Persigo, killed.
Deputy Chief Louis J. Sirgo, killed.
Lt. Horace Perez, wounded.
Lt. Tim Ursin, wounded.
Officer Ken Solis, wounded.
Eighth District officer Kenny Solis, shot in the shoulder, leans
against a tree as officer Dave McCann tries to stop the bleeding.
McCann and Solis had been walking across Duncan Plaza in New Orleans,
when Solis clutched his shoulder and said he'd been shot.
Sgt. Emanuel Palmisano
Officer Larry Arthur, wounded.
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