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 KIRO 7 News 
 
 
 
 QUICK FACTS: 
 
 • Pierce County man who killed at 13 released Tuesday. 
 
 • Was the youngest person in U.S. to receive life without parole. 
 
 • Victim was Paul Wang, killed at the Steilacoom Marina. 
 
 • 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision and 2014 state decision paved way for his release. 
 
 • Killer Barry Massey met by his wife, a former corrections officer he met in prison. 
 
 
 
 Barry Massey, who fatally stabbed a local store owner in the neck as a 13-year-old, was released from prison Tuesday even though he was sentenced to life in prison in the late 1980s. 
 
 In 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that life sentences without parole for juveniles were cruel and unusual punishment. 
 
 Massey, 42, won a re-sentencing hearing in 2014 and was sentenced to 25 years to life, clearing the way for possible release. Massey was the first beneficiary of a Washington law allowing such juvenile offenders to petition for release after a quarter-century. 
 
 At the time of his conviction, Massey was the youngest person in the United States to receive life without parole. 
 
 Shirley Wang, the widow of victim Paul Wang, wrote a letter to the Pierce County Superior Court last year, describing her ongoing pain at the loss of her husband. 
 
 Wang was killed Jan. 10, 1987, after a robbery at the Steilacoom Marina. 
 
 Wang was shot with a .32 caliber pistol, because he hesitated while opening his cash register. He was shot again as a bell went off as the cash register opened, according to a 1987 KIRO report. Wang was also stabbed several times. 
 
 Massey was one of two teenage boys convicted of the murder. He and another teen, Michael Harris, took cash, candy, gum, fishing poles and several lighters, according to KIRO 7 report at the time. 
 
 Police setup roadblocks and a police search dog caught up to one of the boys after he was stopped there. Investigators said they went back after committing the crime. 
 
 Police set up roadblocks and a police search dog caught up to one of the boys after he was stopped there. Investigators said they went back after committing the crime. 
 
 Harris was 15 years old during the killing. He is scheduled to be released in August. 
 
 Washington had 29 prisoners sentenced to life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles, according to the state's Indeterminate Sentence Review Board. 
 
 In June 2015, the sentence review board announced Massey completed a series of inmate classes about behavior, problem solving and social skills. 
 
 He married a former corrections officer while in prison, and she was waiting at the gate when Massey was released about 8:20 a.m. Tuesday. 
 
 "They've been waiting for this moment for a very, very long time and it's hard to believe that it's finally here," Massey's attorney Maureen Devlin said. 
 
 Massey was required to submit a release plan to the state Department of Corrections, including his residence. Last year, the sentence review board determined Massey is not likely to commit more crimes if set free. 
 
 "We're grateful for the board's faith in Barry," Devlin said in 2015. "It is not misplaced." 
 
 Massey apologized in a brief statement last year. There also was a passionate effort to keep him in prison, including a website with facts of the case and a description of Massey calling him a ruthless killer. 
 
 As part of his release, Massey will be on community custody supervision for three years. He cannot leave the state without written permission from a community corrections officer, cannot own a gun, must consent to home visits by the Department of Corrections, and must submit to searches of himself of his vehicle when requested by a community corrections officer. 
 
 Massey is also prohibited from using mind- or mood-altering drugs, must submit to random drug tests, and may not drink alcohol. He also is required to submit a polygraph exam to verify compliance with his release plan. 
 
 Massey also cannot have any contact with his victim's family. 
 
 Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said last year he sympathized with Wang's family, who are still dealing with their loss. 
 
 "I hope Mr. Massey uses this second chance to become a productive member of society," he said. 
 
 Information from The Associated Press and the KIRO 7 archive is included in this report. 
 
 A previous version of this report erroneously reported Barry Massey as 13 when he was sentenced. Massey was 14 years old.
– Exactly one month ago, 42-year-old Barry Massey walked out of a Washington state prison. It's a day that may very well have never come. At age 14, Massey became the youngest American at the time to be sentenced to life without parole; as a 13-year-old, he and a teen two years older shot and stabbed a store owner in the course of a robbery. But things took a turn in 2012, when the Supreme Court found sentences such as Massey's to be cruel and unusual punishment in the case of juveniles. The AP reports that Washington state law was subsequently altered to permit juvenile lifers to petition for release once they had served 25 years; Massey's case was reviewed first, and conditional release was approved. The Seattle Times takes a look at what awaited him after 28 years behind bars. Massey took a trip to Walmart, a place he had only heard about, on his first day out. It was one of a slew of things that are new to him: He has never driven a car, or even taken public transportation outside of a school bus. He's never tried alcohol (and can't, per his release stipulations, notes KIRO 7). He has forgotten how to swim but remembers how to ride a bike. KIRO 7 reports Massey had to submit a release plan during his petitioning process, and that plan included moving in with a woman he married in a 2009 prison ceremony—a woman he met when she worked as a corrections officer at Monroe Corrections Center, where he served his time. Rhonda Massey quit her job to be with him and is now an investigator with the Snohomish County Office of Public Defense; the Times has more on their controversial relationship. (In Texas, an exonerated inmate got his prosecutor disbarred.)