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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; Facebook Share 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. ....
‘It’s gut-wrenching’: Edgar Bowser, man who killed Shrewsbury Police Officer James Lonchiadis in 1975, granted medical parole Updated Feb 04, 2021; In 1975, Edgar Bowser, armed with a .32 caliber handgun, shot and killed 28-year-old Shrewsbury Police Officer James Lonchiadis. Forty-six years later, Bowser has been granted medical parole. The 62-year-old inmate has spent much of the past five decades behind bars but is now being granted medical parole after a decision was issued by Massachusetts Department of Correction Commissioner Carol Mici, sources told MassLive. Bowser, an inmate at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, has been diagnosed with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a rare cancer that originates in the upper part of the throat. The cancer has spread to his bones, and he remains unresponsive, which is why he was granted medical parole in the first place, according to Bowser’s Somerville-based attorney, Rebecca Rose. ....