CHICAGO (AP) – Three men convicted of killing Chicago police officers in separate incidents decades ago have been paroled. Sixty-eight-year-old Johnny Veal was 17 when he and another man killed Sgt. James Severin and Officer Anthony Rizzato in 1970, as they walked across a field in the Cabrini-Green public housing complex. Veal and the now 74-year-old George Knights were convicted of the murders and sentenced to 100 to 199 years. Knights remains in prison. Joseph Hurst was also paroled Thursday by the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. The 77-year-old Hurst Hurst was convicted of killing Officer Herman Stallworth and wounding his partner after being pulled over for speeding in 1967.
