Sergeant Edwin C. Hosli, Sr., a 30-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, was a dedicated officer with the New Orleans Police Department. On December 31, 1972, he responded to an alarm at a warehouse shortly after the murder of Patrolman Alfred Harrell. As he entered the warehouse, he was shot by a sniper. The sniper, later identified as Mark Essex, a member of the Black Panthers, was responsible for a series of attacks on law enforcement officers. Sergeant Hosli succumbed to his injuries two mon
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