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- Birth nameMark James Robert Essex
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- Mark Essex was born on August 12, 1949 in Emporia, Kansas, USA. He died on January 7, 1973 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- African-American former Navy sailor who killed nine people in two separate and senseless race-related shootings. First killed two policemen on December 31, 1972 outside the New Orleans county jail, and then killed seven passers by and wounded a dozen more at the Howard Johnson Hotel in French Quarter.
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