Palmisano (43). Gunshot wounds to arm and back Officer Kenneth Solis (26). Gunshot wound to shoulder and back New Orleans fireman Timothy Ursin (29). Gunshot wound to shoulder and chest Footnote The manager of the Downtown Howard Johnson's Hotel, Walter Collins, died of his injuries on January 26, 1973. Officer Edwin Hosli died of his injury on March 5, 1973. Aftermath Two days after Essex's death, police visited the two-room apartment in which he had resided in the two months prior to his death. Officers discovered Essex had painted across all windows to the apartment and further covered the windows with bedding in order that no natural light could penetrate into the apartment. The sole source of light into both rooms was provided by a single red bulb, and the sole remaining furniture was a single waterbed. A map of New Orleans with a large circle drawn around the police headquarters and the Howard Johnson's Hotel was found on the floor. The walls of both rooms were covered in bold red and black lettering depicting racial and revolutionary slogans in both the English and several Bantu languages. Other slogans simply listed beasts from African folklore. Beneath one rallying slogan, Essex had painted the words: "My destiny lies in the bloody death of racist pigs." Another inscription read: "The Third World – Kill Pig Nixon and his Running Dogs." In the weeks following Essex's massacre, several prominent individuals within New Orleans' black community were interviewed with regards to the underlying motives behind his murders. One Louisiana State Representative, Louis Charbonnet, would later reflect the general media questioning of New Orleans' black community made several individuals feel people "wanted to hear the black community of New Orleans apologize for [Essex's actions]." Charbonnet elaborated: "Here was a boy from Kansas who came here and vented his frustration in a suicide mission. What could I say about him? The black community in New Orleans did not invite him here; nor did we send him up to that rooftop." Several months after Essex's death, an eminent sociologist would state Essex's idyllic upbringing in Emporia—a community which had prided itself in a long history of racial harmony—had left Essex ill-prepared to encounter intolerance and continuous racial discrimination as a young adult as he had not been "vaccinated" against the harsh realities of bigotry as a youngster. One of the police officers killed in Essex's attack at