Man Convicted of Murdering First Female New York City Officer Killed on Duty Has Been Paroled

The killer behind the slaying of the first female NYPD officer murdered in the line of duty was quietly released on parole earlier this month – an outrage that is “a blow to every cop,” the city’s largest police union said Sunday.

Cop-killer Darryl Jeter shot Officer Irma “Fran” Lozada, 25, twice in the head in 1984 after she and her partner chased him for stealing a straphanger’s chain on the L subway line in Brooklyn, the Police Benevolent Association said in a statement.

Jeter was convicted of second-degree murder and given a sentence of 32 and 1/2 years to life behind bars, the New York Post reports. He was sentenced before the enactment of PBA-backed legislation that made life without parole the top sentencing option for cop-killers, the union said.

Jeter had served a little more than 36 years of his sentence before he was released Dec. 7, according to state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision records.