A man convicted in the 1973 killing of a Chicago police office has been denied parole after a contingent of officers traveled to his parole hearing today.
Joseph Bigsby, who is in state prison in Danville, is serving 200 years in prison in the Sept. 28, 1973, murder of Officer Edward Barron, 50 years in the attempted murder of another officer and 20 years for an armed robbery in the case.
The sentences were imposed to run concurrently, according to news reports at the time.
A group of officers took a bus from Chicago Police Headquarters this morning to Springfield to be at Bigsby’s parole hearing. Bigsby was denied parole, according to police News Affairs.
Barron was shot in the pursuit of Bigsby, then 16, following two armed robberies. Barron’s partner, Daniel Abate, shot Bigsby before officers caught him in the 7900 block of South Colfax Avenue and found a gun he had discarded after firing 9 rounds.
Bigsby, now 54, has been in prison since soon after sentence was imposed in May 1975.
At the time of his death, Barron was married and had a son, then 14, and daughter, then 13
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