Washington – Thirty-five years after Wallie Howard Jr. was shot and killed during an undercover drug bust, Rep. John Mannion wants to help keep the Syracuse police officer’s name remembered.
Mannion plans to introduce a bill Wednesday that would name the only remaining post office on Syracuse’s South Side in honor of Howard, who was killed in a grocery store’s parking lot only blocks away.
If the bill is signed into law, the Colvin-Elmwood Post Office at 2200 S. Salina St. would become the Officer Wallie J. Howard Post Office Building…