A former college president’s son who killed a man in a 1993 triple shooting in Massachusetts has been granted parole , according to officials and published reports.

Mark Van Winkle, 51, has been granted release to a halfway house after six months in lower security, according to a Parole Board ruling on Oct. 7.

Van Winkle is the son of Roger Van Winkle, a former president of Massachusetts Bay Community College , the Patriot Ledger reported. The elder Van Winkle, who led the college from 1983 to 1999, died in 2020.

Mark Van Winkle was convicted in 1994 of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Israel Espino, 21, the ruling said. Espino was one of three men Van Winkle shot after luring them to a fake drug sale in Millis with the intent of robbing them.

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