Mark Essex
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Mark James Robert Essex was an American serial sniper and black nationalist known as the "New Orleans Sniper" who killed a total of nine people, including five police officers, and wounded twelve othe
Essex, pictured while enlisted in the US Navy, July 1969
Essex, pictured in 1967
The former New Orleans Howard Johnson's downtown hotel, 2008
Officer David McCann provides first aid to wounded colleague Kenneth Solis after he was shot in the right shoulder
Ruger Model 44
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The Ruger Model 44 is a semi-automatic rifle chambered in.44 Remington Magnum designed and manufactured by American firearm company Sturm, Ruger & Co. It uses a four-round tubular magazine and was pro
Mark Essex
…extremist content of the 1968 book Black Rage. Sometime around late-April 1971, Essex returned to his family in Emporia. Two months later, he purchased a Ruger Model 44 semi-automatic .44 Magnum carbine via mail-order from an Emporia Montgomery Ward outlet. Upon receiving the weapon several weeks later, he began…
The right side of the Ruger Deerstalker 44 Magnum semi-auto rifle.