More than 25 years after his brother was gunned down in central Phoenix, Dan Levey sued to keep his older brother’s killer in prison. After a year-and-a-half court battle, that’s where the convicted killer will stay.
“I don’t see any redeeming reason to let this person out,” Dan Levey told Phoenix New Times after learning that a scheduled parole hearing for the killer would not take place. “He committed first-degree murder. He didn’t give my brother any chance to get away, and my brother was just an innocent person.”
On an early Sunday morning in November 1996, Howard Levey sat in his car outside Clarendon Elementary, reading the sports sections of the newspaper and listening to the radio. He was waiting for his weekly pickup basketball game to begin…