Walter Sherwood Collins

Death by Force

Walter Sherwood Collins was a 56-year-old male serving as the general manager of the Downtown Howard Johnson’s Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. On January 7, 1973, in the predawn hours of that Sunday, Collins became one of the casualties in a dramatic and deadly sniper attack carried out by a lone assailant inside the hotel.

The gunman, later identified as Mark J. Essex, armed himself with a. 44-caliber semiautomatic rifle and instigated chaos by setting multiple fires on the upper fl ...Read More

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