FILE - In this Feb. 21, 1965 file photo, New York City Police Sgt. Alvin Aronoff, left, grips hands of 22-year-old Thomas Hagan in the emergency room of Jewish hospital in New York after Hagan was wounded earlier that day. Hagan, one of three men convicted of killing civil rights leader Malcolm X, has been granted release from weekends in prison in his 17th appearance before a state parole board.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Thomas Hagan, 1 of 3 men convicted of killing civil rights leader Malcolm X 45 years ago, has been granted release from weekends in prison in his 17th appearance before a state parole board.
State Division of Parole spokeswoman Carole Weaver says the 69-year-old Hagan appeared before a two-woman, one-man parole panel on March 3 and was granted release effective April 28.
Until then, he'll remain at Lincoln Correctional Facility in Manhattan, where for the past 22 years he has spent two days a week locked up. The other five days, he's been allowed to live with his family and work for a private employer.
Hagan was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in April 1966 for shooting Malcolm X at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom. Two other convicted gunmen were previously paroled.
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