Power, right, leaves prison on Saturday

October 2, 1999
Web posted at: 6:14 p.m. EDT (2214 GMT)

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts (CNN) -- After serving nearly six years in prison for her role in the slaying of a Boston policeman, 1960s radical Katherine Ann Power was released from the Massachusetts Correctional Institute on Saturday.

The former Brandeis student and anti-Vietnam War activist, now 50, drove the getaway car in a 1970 Boston bank robbery in which officer Walter Schroeder died.

Power, who originally was sentenced to eight to 12 years in prison, was released early under a state law that reduces sentences for good behavior.

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In 1993, after more than two decades on the run, Power turned herself in to authorities and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the shooting.

Schroeder had tried to stop Power and three others from stealing $26,000 from the bank to fund an anti-war campaign. He was shot in the back by an accomplice of Power who remains in prison.

During her years on the run, Power assumed the identity of a dead infant, Alice Louise Metzinger, and managed a restaurant in Corvallis, Oregon. She married and gave birth to a son.

Last year, during a parole review, she apologized to Schroeder's family.