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Sergeant

Edwin C. Hosli, Sr.

New Orleans Police Department — New Orleans, LA

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch March 5, 1973

Age 30

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Badge 1237

The Vigil Panel 111 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 127

Incident

Sergeant Edwin Hosli succumbed to wounds received two months earlier when he was shot by a sniper who was also responsible for the murder of Cadet Alfred Harrell on December 31, 1972. Minutes after the murder of Patrolman Harrell, Sergeant Hosli and his canine partner responded to nearby warehouses after an alarm went off. The sniper shot him as he entered one of the warehouses. On January 7, 1973, the suspect shot Deputy Superintendent Louis Sirgo, Patrolman Paul Persigo, and Patrolman Philip Coleman from the hotel roof, killing them. The suspect, who was a member of the Black Panthers, was shot and killed by police, who used a Marine Helicopter to fly over the hotel and fire at the suspect. Sergeant Hosli had served with the New Orleans Police Department for ten years. He was survived by his wife and four children. One of his sons retired from the New Orleans Police Department, and a grandson wears his badge number while serving with the agency. The Black Panther Party was a black nationalist and Marxist revolutionary political and militant organization active in the United States between 1966 and 1982. Members and former members of the group were responsible for the murders of over 20 law enforcement officers and the wounding of dozens more across the nation. Please click here to visit all the law enforcement officers who have died as a result of the Black Panther Party's violent activism.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and four children.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Sergeant Hosli gave the New Orleans Police Department 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the New Orleans community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department New Orleans Police Department

Location New Orleans, LA

Platform Identity nopd.orleans.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 5, 1973

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 30

Badge Number 1237

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Rifle

Offender Shot and killed

Military Service

Edwin C. Hosli, Sr. served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Sergeant Edwin C. Hosli, Sr. is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In LA, 364 of 595 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.2% of this state's fallen. That is 7 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At New Orleans Police Department, 86 of 128 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 67.2% of this agency's fallen.

New Orleans Police Department

of 128 officers

67.2% Felonious

LA — Statewide

364

of 595 officers

61.2% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious