re: Howard Johnson Sniper 50 years

I was coming back from camping in Bay St Louis in my grandparents' motorhome. We were wondering why NOLA seemed like a Ghost Town that Sunday morning.
I remember the NOPD looking like the Keystone Cops when, after Essex was already dead, they were attacking a "Bunker," or the top of the stairwell on the roof and they thought they were being shot at by another gunman. It wound up being their own bullets ricocheting off the concrete walls of the stairwell! One officer lost part of his ear.

Also rememeber Antoine Saacks being portrayed as a hero for being the one that obliterated Essex. He would later become Police Chief.