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.
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Updated Mar 01, 2021;
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The lawyer for a man convicted of second-degree murder in the 1975 killing of Shrewsbury Police Officer James Lonchiadis Jr. said her client is near death and has been released from prison to a hospital.
Edgar J. Bowser III, 62, is in an undisclosed hospital’s intensive care unit, unconscious and on a ventilator the past four weeks after testing positive for COVID-19, according to Rebecca Rose, his lawyer.
In 1978, Bowser was convicted in Worcester Superior Court of second-degree murder with the possibility of parole.
Rose, in a telephone interview Tuesday, said Bowser was released under the state s medical parole statute, also called compassionate release. She said it affords prisoners “some kind of dignity, and within some kind of care, so they’re not dying alone in prison.”