article_snippet: Gary Castonguay, now 71, is serving 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting 28-year-old Plainville police Officer Robert Holcomb in the chest while fleeing from a burglary in 1977.
article_snippet: Gary Castonguay has now been locked up for more than 37 years.
article_snippet: In January, parole board members voted to release Gary Castonguay this July - sparking outrage from Holcomb's relatives and prosecutors, who said they had not been told about the meeting.
article_snippet: Staying put: Gary Castonguay listens to victim impact statements during a hearing inside MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution on Wednesday, where a parole board rescinded a decision to free MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution .
article_snippet: On Wednesday, another hearing was held at institution where Gary Castonguay is imprisoned.
article_snippet: Gary Castonguay should remain incarcerated for the remainder of Gary Castonguay natural existence,' Searles said in a letter from his widow, Nancy Holcomb Searles, who was too distressed to attend. '
highlights_snippet: Gary Castonguay is serving 25 years to life in prison for gunning down Plainville, Connecticut Officer Robert Holcomb during a 1977 burglary .
  
highlights_snippet: In January, a parole board voted to release Gary Castonguay this July - but Holcomb's family