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re: Bad accident at Endymion - Truck drives into crowd, dozens injured
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:15 am to ellishughtiger
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:15 am to ellishughtiger
quote:I wonder how many people staying at the Holiday Inn today realize what went on back then. I remember it clearly. The image of that Chinook firing at that concrete bunker and that ominous hole in the concrete was bizarre. LINK
Google -Mark Essex
"In the hallway in front of room 1829, Essex found 27-year-old vacationing Dr. Robert Steagall and his wife Betty, a couple from Virginia enjoying a belated honeymoon. After a struggle with Dr. Steagall, Essex shot him in the chest and shot Betty in the back of the head. The Steagalls both died of their injuries. In the room, he soaked telephone books with lighter fluid and set them ablaze under the curtains. Essex dropped a Pan-African flag onto the floor beside the bodies of the couple as he left. On the 11th floor, Essex shot his way into several rooms and set more fires. On the 11th floor, he shot and killed Frank Schneider, the hotel's assistant manager, and shot Walter Collins, the hotel's general manager. Collins died in the hospital three weeks later as a result of his gunshot wounds."
"As he stepped out once again in the open to fire again on the helicopter, and after hitting the helicopter's transmission, Essex was barraged with fatal gunfire from police sharpshooters on the roofs of adjacent buildings as well as the automatic weapons aboard the helicopter. An autopsy later revealed more than 200 gunshot wounds."
Of note: "Essex then ran into Gert Town, an area renowned for high crime and hostility towards police." Have police always been hated by blacks in NOLA?
This post was edited on 2/26/17 at 9:26 am
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Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:19 am to tigerpawl
My dad actually went down there when this was going on. I'm not even sure why. He used to tell me about how the chinook lit this guy up. Don't see reaction like that these days.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:54 am to tigerpawl
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Have police always been hated by blacks in NOLA?
Yes, people usually get upset if you try to stop them from doing what they want, like committing crimes.
This post was edited on 2/26/17 at 9:55 am
Posted on 2/26/17 at 3:52 pm to tigerpawl
Future NOPD Superintendent Antoine Saacks was one of the snipers in the Chinook.
They thought there was more than one shooter, so the moved in on one bunker/stairwell on the roof after Essex was dead. I'll never forget the NOPD screaming that they were being shot at from the bunker, when it was their own bullets richocheting back at them. Actually took one officer's ear off.
They thought there was more than one shooter, so the moved in on one bunker/stairwell on the roof after Essex was dead. I'll never forget the NOPD screaming that they were being shot at from the bunker, when it was their own bullets richocheting back at them. Actually took one officer's ear off.
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