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Me action favoring the “kill # Killer Exe Shree top Los ‘Angeles law enforcement officials t od ay-eriticized: Gover nor Edmund G. Browi’s commutation of the death Ciilef Dep. Dist. Atty, E ley “J. Bowler, Police|{Chlet ay Willlam H. Parker anda eritt a voicad opposition to. gury’ Walker, 43, killer of -. i crazy” murderer. cot The -three officiala led. a wave of public indignation: over-leniency for the danger- & ous ‘criminal who also shot and a wounded two Los An- geles police detectives. Walker was ‘convicted of first degree m™ murder in a Los Angeles Su- perior Court trial. .- Retired Detective Colin For- by Walker, said: “My beef is with Gover- nor Brown and public apathy. I saw a story the other day quoting Walker that he had only shot the officer twice. ActuaHy, it was six times. . “It is like the Chessman case.. The public really never has a chance to know. the full details. This man whl-do it again if he has a chafice.” : : INFLICTED WOUND Gfticers said Forbes” retire- meht resulted in part from the*‘wound inflicted..by ison,. another victim ‘jo! r’s shooting spree, sa}d. alker was sane whe wag: found sane later, now. has been found sane again. SOE re er orem ler,-who prosecuted Walker in a ‘should have paid for his jc ni L: 3} sald; tence of Erwin M. “Mack ornia highway, patrefinal Aprett.Rossevels, | “Gooner or later he W “hack on the street “From now. on, rm going to-have eyes in the back of. “a California Highway an Superior Court trial here, dead, ard a:Les Angeles | =) ‘Stan carrie a bullet in his - a spine as a result of Walker's \ “I Was in Sactamento Tues: Ce acrtioes -of- these; day to appear before Gov- | oricers have gone in vain in , ernor Brown’s clemency | yew of the action taken by. hearing in the Walker | VieW Of GB law = | case. . . | ae erent officers and the Me eecehee cae ap’ |} forcement officers ” me Tn’. repeating. ofr -¥e-.!| people they protect have quest net Walke ker be oe tered # major defeat.”:} our position has -not ang Jom changed since this man / was convicted 15 years ago . for murdering a peace of: ficer and shooting a ond. ~ “One of the victims— | Colin Forbes—still carries. scars and a bullet in his back as a reminder of that sec." Roosevelt in cold blood early June 5, 1946 on the 4000 block of Brunswick ave. Hollywood Roosevelt, en route to ome, 410 E.\ Maple ave.' Glendale, stopped his car when he spotted a suspicious character. ‘ . - The phantom approached Roosevelt's automobile and pumped five .45 pistol bullets into the victim, according ta pale recalled these im- et “While time tends to dim the memory and dull the ; conscience, it doesn’t alter..; the fact that Walker killed ; ehe officer and séverely ‘wounded another. “We believe he. was same at the time of the. crime, and we further believe he crimes with his life.” . “The governor's action in mmuting the sentence of e gun Walker itus his lack of cone{ fo} the problems. of the’ pojice.” - a ‘ Sheriff Peter J. Pitchiss pretsions from the Walker tria : ; ifs 1 remember the cake, hére are four things tat stand out in my memory: