(WBNG) According to a
report by the New York Post, a man who killed a New York City Police Department officer in 1981 serves on a police reform panel in Ithaca.
According to the Post, now 56-year-old Richard Rivera was 16-years-old when he shot and killed Officer Robert Walsh at a bar in Queens. Walsh was off-duty at the time. Rivera and four other teens entered to rob the bar. Police stated Walsh identified himself as an officer and reached for his gun when Rivera shot Walsh in the shoulder, wounding him, and then in the head.
Walsh served 12 years with the police department.