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Palm Sunday Massacre’ killer quietly freed from prison
https://nypost.com/ ^ | 3/31/18 | Shawn Cohen, Aaron Feis and Larry Celona

Posted on 04/01/2018 8:07:12 PM PDT by BBell

The fiend behind one of the most infamous mass shootings in city history — the “Palm Sunday Massacre” that left eight children and two young moms dead in Brooklyn in 1984 — has been quietly released from an upstate prison.

Christopher Thomas slaughtered the innocents in an East New York apartment on a rainy Palm Sunday — the blood-soaked culmination of a beef with the home’s owner, convicted cocaine dealer Enrique ­Bermudez.

Thomas, now 68, was released nearly three months ago and is ­believed to be living in Queens.

“He doesn’t deserve to be on the street . . . He killed poor, innocent children,’’ retired NYPD Lt. Herbert Hohmann, who led the investigation and testified against Thomas, told The Post on Friday.

Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday that Thomas’ “heinous crime” warranted the maximum penalty.

The killer was released from the Shawangunk Correctional Facility on Jan. 5 after serving two-thirds of his 50-year maximum sentence and fulfilling other criteria, including good behavior, said a state Department of Corrections spokesman.

“The parole board did not let him out,” the rep said.

“He had five appearances before the parole board and was denied ­every time. He doesn’t need board approval because he served the two-thirds.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: blackguy; killer; palmsundaymassacre; prison
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Murdered 10 people in cold blood, 8 of them kids, and now he's free. Look for an outraged press tomorrow. Speechless.
1 posted on 04/01/2018 8:07:13 PM PDT by BBell
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This POS should never be free. He should not even be living, but libtards think that what he did is not so bad after all.


2 posted on 04/01/2018 8:15:06 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: BBell

Unbelievable.


3 posted on 04/01/2018 8:15:33 PM PDT by Deo volente ("Our Independence Day is at hand, and it arrives finally on November 8th." Donald Trump)
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To: Deo volente

Only 68 = still dangerous if the reasons he did this in the first place have not been addressed definitively. Our nation has lost its way.


4 posted on 04/01/2018 8:19:22 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: BBell

Did he use an AR-15?

Has David Hogg been notified so he can vent his outrage at everybody except the Murderer?


5 posted on 04/01/2018 8:19:26 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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and people complain about the manson murderers....

8 people killed...

6 posted on 04/01/2018 8:33:35 PM PDT by cherry
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To: BBell

Put him in a remote controlled Uber.


7 posted on 04/01/2018 8:33:45 PM PDT by mindburglar (I have an above average brain stem)
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To: cherry

oh I see...he’s not Caucasian.....explains a lot...


8 posted on 04/01/2018 8:34:12 PM PDT by cherry
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Keep tabs and post his whereabouts, photo, etc. Somebody out there with a terminal illness can pay him a visit.

Our justice system is a joke.

9 posted on 04/01/2018 8:47:17 PM PDT by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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He ‘ll vote first.


10 posted on 04/01/2018 8:59:06 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: neverevergiveup

He can drive a vehicle into a crowd real easy.


11 posted on 04/01/2018 9:07:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BBell

...today he lives next to a day care center...


12 posted on 04/01/2018 9:15:04 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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DeBlasio will probably hire him for “population control”.


13 posted on 04/01/2018 10:32:11 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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I’m convinced that many of these mutants are being released from prison at this age because the corrections departments don’t want to pay for their medical care.


14 posted on 04/01/2018 10:50:50 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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The Japanese have a very large geriatric population in their prisons. A number of old folks in Japan purposely get thrown in Prison for the health care they receive and for the camaraderie. A lot of lonely old people in Japan.


15 posted on 04/01/2018 11:07:43 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Enchante

They “think” he’s in Queens huh. But he might be anywhere?


16 posted on 04/01/2018 11:54:46 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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They “think” he’s in Queens huh. But he might be anywhere?


17 posted on 04/01/2018 11:54:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: neverevergiveup

He was 33 when he killed them all. I’m not 60 yet, but I don’t think my world view has changed a whole bunch since I was 33. Although perhaps 35 years in prison changed him. For the better...or for the worse...., I do not know.

But - those kids are still dead, and he is enjoying life as a free man.


18 posted on 04/02/2018 12:27:20 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: BBell

social justice


19 posted on 04/02/2018 3:02:30 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: BBell

This is what happens when you don’t execute murderers.


20 posted on 04/02/2018 5:38:03 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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