Edgar Bowser, man who killed Shrewsbury Police Officer James Lonchiadis in 1975, dies in prison hospital 3 months after being granted medical parole
Updated May 10, 2021;
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Edgar Bowser, the man who killed Shrewsbury Police Officer James Lonchiadis nearly 50 years ago, died in a prison hospital last week, roughly three months after he was granted medical parole by the state.
The 61-year-old man had metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a rare throat cancer, and his condition took a turn for the worse when he contracted coronavirus late last year, according to his attorney, Rebecca Rose.
“His lungs never recovered from COVID,” she said.
He died last Friday night in a correctional unit at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, according to the Somerville-based attorney. The facility provides health care to inmates from more than two dozen state and county prison facilities across Massachusetts.