Terrill Hardaway
(Prison photo via Motor City Muckraker)
With the bankruptcy and pension cuts and all, this story is painful.
Former Detroit firefighter Terrill Hardaway, convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a disc jockey outside a Detroit bar in 2012 is collecting pension benefits from the city of Detroit while he is in prison, Steve Neavling reports at Motor City Muckraker.
Hardaway was sentenced in January to 5 to 17 years. He’s 37 years old and will receive as much as $35,000 a year and health insurance for the rest of his life.
Neavling writes:
Whether Hardaway was even eligible for a pension is another question. On Jan. 26, 2014, just three days before he was arrested for second-degree murder, Hardaway told the department he injured his back while slipping on ice trying to extinguish a car fire.
When he was arrested thee days later, he was placed on leave without pay and never worked for the department again.
Although Hardaway was barred from working while he awaited trial, the Detroit Police and Fire Retirement System did him a big favor in May 2014 by approving his request to be placed on duty disability so that he could begin collecting a pension as part of the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act.