Lee Walker was sentenced to prison for his crime in 1985
A man who was convicted of killing a police officer after taking a pair of sunglasses from a store in 1985 has been released on parole — and the late officer’s family said the news “hits you in the gut.”
After serving 40 years following a first-degree murder conviction, Lee Walker was released on parole from the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, according to records from the state’s Department of Corrections.
The New York Post reported that Walker, 67, was charged with killing New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Juan Andino on June 15, 1984, while being questioned over the theft of a pair of Cazal sunglasses in the Bronx…