- A former Chicago man whose planned parole sparked outrage 43 years after he killed two police officers in a Northlake bank robbery has died behind bars.
In a brief notice sent Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons stated that Henry Michael Gargano, 79, died Oct. 13 in a North Carolina federal medical correctional center. Afflicted with emphysema and stricken by two heart attacks, Gargano had been at the facility since last autumn.
The son of a university police officer, Gargano and two men killed Northlake police officers John Nagle and Anthony Perri while robbing the Northlake Bank on Oct. 27,1967. Four days later, authorities arrested him and accomplice Clifton O. Daniels in a cottage near LaPorte, Ind. The third robber, Ronald Del Raine, was wounded and apprehended during the bank robbery
The three men were each sentenced to 199 years in prison, where Daniels died. Del Raine is the lone survivor.
Two down, one to go, and the family is willing to travel to make sure the last one dies in prison as intended by the courts:
- "That's a bit of a reality check," Nagle said. "We may have to go through the whole process again. But, if it comes down to another hearing, we'd all be willing to put up with it."
Hopefully, they won't have to.