A man has been granted parole after serving 16 years in connection with the stabbing death of a man outside a Boston bar in 2009.
Corey Patterson, 38, was paroled on Jan. 20, according to a Massachusetts Parole Board decision. He was convicted of second-degree murder in 2012 and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
In November 2009, Patterson and a group of friends were at an Allston bar where Patterson attempted to get the attention of a woman who was part of another group, according to parole documents. Patterson, then 23-year-old Dorchester resident, was told to back off…