The Massachusetts Parole Board unanimously voted Tuesday to parole to Thomas Koonce, a convicted murder whose life sentence was commuted by Gov. Charlie Baker earlier this year, over the objections of the victim's family.
Thomas Koonce, who has been incarcerated for three decades for first-degree murder, answers questions from the Governor's Council. His attorney Timothy Foley, right.
Koonce, 55, has been incarcerated for three decades for the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Mark Santos in New Bedford in 1987. Koonce, who was 20 and on leave from the Marine Corps at the time, shot his gun out a car window during a fight in New Bedford, hitting Santos. This is the final step in the commutation process. The parole board initially approved Koonce's request to commute his first-degree murder sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole to second-degree murder — making him eligible for parole. Baker and the Governor's Council both approved the commutation. The vote this week then cleared the way for Koonce to be released from prison.
Koonce's attorney Timothy Foley said Koonce will be set free once his living arrangements are set at the Justice Brooke House.
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