New Orleans police chief David Hennessy is…

October 1890 CE

New Orleans police chief David Hennessy is shot by several gunmen as he walks home from work on the evening of October 15, 1890.

Hennessy returns fire and chases his attackers before collapsing.

When asked who had shot him, Hennessy reportedly whispered to Captain William O'Connor, "Dagoes" (a derogatory term for Italians and others of Mediterranean heritage).

Hennessy is awake in the hospital for several hours after the shooting, and speaks to friends, but does not name the shooters.

The next day complications set in and he dies.

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