Man Who Killed Cop in Brooklyn Decades Ago Granted Parole

Shu’aib Raheem, the man who killed Police Officer Stephen Gilroy during a 47-hour hostage situation at John and Al’s Sports Goods in Williamsburg in 1973 was granted parole with some help from Superintendent Joseph Smith. Raheem, 60, is scheduled to  be released from prison July 8. He was granted parole one other time, but that decision was flipped after protests. Smith said Raheem has been a model prisoner, working in a library and youth program and reaching out to other Muslims. “Someone once said to me that if someone was pretty stable for six months, there’s a good chance that person is going to be stable for the next six months,” Smith told the Daily News. “And I think he has been very stable within the system. If he were paroled … I would think that his chance at rearrest would be very, very slim.”