ROCHESTER, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts man serving life in prison for the 1993 brutal murder of his parents and 11-year-old sister was denied parole.
A state Parole Board issued a unanimous opinion Tuesday denying Gerard McCra, now know as Kuluwm Asar, parole, according to Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz.
In a statement, Cruz said Asar, who is now 41, “savagely executed his entire family back in 1993 and then sat before the Parole Board, and showed no remorse for his heinous actions, not even uttering their names once.”
The board, according to Cruz’s office, said he “is not yet rehabilitated, and his release is not compatible with the welfare of society.”
Officials said that in October 1993, Asar got into an argument with his parents and later that day shot his mother, Merle McCra, 36, in the head inside their family home in Rochester. He then went outside and fatally shot both his father, also named Gerard McCra, and younger sister Melanie in the back of the head.
He was found guilty of the murder in 1995 and was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole, The Boston Globe reported.
His convictions were affirmed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1998.
In 2013, a state Supreme Judicial Court decision found Asar’s provisions mandating life without the possibility of parole “were invalid as applied to juveniles convicted of first degree murder,” according to a statement from the district attorney’s office.
He will become eligible to go before the board again in five years.
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