Mark Essex — Holiday Inn

Wonder why the media never talks about him...

Sure do. I was 8 years old at the time and they even had TV coverage on in our classroom at Alice Birney in Metairie.

I remember it well. I was 14. We spent the entire Sunday watching it unfold live on television.

Yep but remember the Baton Rouge shite more as it was right by my moms office

I remember, was there.

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Was just talked about a few weeks ago on here, i believe.

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Here is the only place I have ever heard about it, then I looked up more.

Yep. It was the Howard Johnson at the time. It is now the Holiday Inn with the clarinet painted on the side.

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Someone here a few weeks ago posted that their father was one of the officers there and they had to basically scoop that guys body parts off the roof.

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My BIL was a retired Police Captain. He was a rookie Patrolman when this happened. He described part of his body as goo. I was in Jr. High School. I remember this like it was yesterday. It was covered on TV.

The way that they got him was, they figured out that Essex knew when the helicopter was leaving to circle around again, and that essex would slide down the steam pipe, run out on the roof, and shoot at the helo with his Ruger 44 carbine.

So, the helo pilot played like he was leaving, but spun around, and Antoine Saxx ( nopd in helo ) caught Essex out on the roof. Mowed him down.

Seems like there’s a thread about this every few months