Wallie Howard’s friend to Trump: ‘You let a convicted cop killer out of prison?’
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
Posted Jan 21, 2021
Syracuse police investigate the shooting of undercover investigator Wallie Howard Jr. in front of Mario s Market on South Salina Street on Oct. 30, 1990. Nick Lisi | The Post-Standard
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Syracuse, N.Y. Retired Syracuse police Lt. John “Kid” Corbett’s phone rang early Wednesday morning.
It was a 35-year department veteran calling to tell him that a drug kingpin convicted in the 1990 murder of their friend, undercover investigator Wallie Howard Jr., was just freed from prison by President Trump.
“He was disgusted, angry, depressed over this turn of events, because this is a guy who was on the job when Wallie was killed,” said Corbett. “Very, very upset. We’re all upset.”
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A couple and their two adult children were identified as the victims of a fatal fire Tuesday night, according to the Oneida County Sheriff s Office.
Richard C. Davis, 79, his wife, Johanna M. Davis, 79, their son, Richard C. Davis, 50, and their daughter, Tina M. Davis, 59, were found dead at their home on Rome Oriskany Road in the city of Rome after firefighters responded to the fully-involved house fire, officials said.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, firefighters said Thursday.
Rome firefighters received a call at about 8:59 p.m. Tuesday. Firefighters entered the homes and removed two of the residents initially, before recovering the other residents remains after extinguishing the fire later that night, officials reported. The bodies were later identified by the Onondaga County Medical Examiner s Office.
The Oneida County Sheriff’s Office has released the names of the four people who were killed in a house fire on Rome-Oriskany Road on Tuesday night.
The victims have been identified by the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office as the home’s owners, 79-year old Richard Davis and his wife, 79-year old Johanna Davis and their son and daughter, 50-year old Richard Davis and 59-year old Tina Davis.
All four were pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.