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Paroled cop murderer gets life sentence for bank robbery By Sun-Times Media Wire CHICAGO - A man paroled after murdering a Chicago police detective in the 1960s was sentenced this week to life in prison for robbing a bank. David Walsh was previously sentenced to between 20 and 40 years in prison for the May 1968 murder of Detective Young Hobson, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Hobson was gunned down while off-duty at a tavern in the 1100 block of South Halsted Street after he spotted Walsh carrying a pistol and asked him, "Do you have a right to carry that gun?" according to a Sun-Times ...

U.S. District Court records A Cook County prosecutor argued decades ago that David Walsh should be “securely locked up forever.” Walsh had murdered a Chicago police officer in the 1960s only to be granted parole in 1983, the prosecutor wrote. Walsh had since been arrested with an Uzi submachine gun, “disguises of all sorts,” restraints, ski masks and bulletproof vests, he said. Then, in April 1987, he wrote that Walsh “celebrated his 10th day out of prison by walking into a restaurant on 63rd Street and sticking the place up using a replica of an antique gun.” “Each time this th...