In his second shooting spree of the week, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Essex" id="mw_w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mark Essex">Mark Essex</a> fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson's" id="mwAQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Howard Johnson's">Howard Johnson's</a> Hotel in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" id="mwAQE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, before being shot to death by police officers.<sup about="#mwt166" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-31"}}' id="cite_ref-31" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_7#cite_note-31" id="mwAQI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 31;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQM">[31]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-31"><cite about="#mwt163" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFVargas2016">Vargas, Ramon Antonio (8 July 2016). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_1ebfbb30-6247-5187-a7fc-6f8725d25470.html" id="mwCK8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Dallas police shootings revive memory of sniper Mark Essex, who killed nine New Orleanians, including five cops, in 1973"</a>. <i id="mwCLA">nola.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCLE">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCLI">8 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt163" class="Z3988" id="mwCLM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=nola.com&amp;rft.atitle=Dallas+police+shootings+revive+memory+of+sniper+Mark+Essex%2C+who+killed+nine+New+Orleanians%2C+including+five+cops%2C+in+1973&amp;rft.date=2016-07-08&amp;rft.aulast=Vargas&amp;rft.aufirst=Ramon+Antonio&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nola.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime_police%2Farticle_1ebfbb30-6247-5187-a7fc-6f8725d25470.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+7"></span></span>