A Hispanic man serving a prison sentence of 25 years to life for the 1989 murder of NYPD Officer Anthony Dwyer23, who was pushed from a Time Square roof, He will be released on parole at the end of March after successfully appealing the board’s decision last year.
“It’s just mind-blowing and very discouraging. “They’re letting all the cop killers out,” said Dwyer’s younger sister, Maureen Brisette, 45.
Identified as Eddie Matos has been denied parole seven times since 2014, but last year’s decision was stayed due to a legal technicality.. The criminal appears again before the parole board on March 25. Dwyer’s family gave their victim impact statement on Friday.
“God willing, they deny him,” Brisette said, adding: “He should receive a life sentence. “We all have a life sentence.”
On October 17, 1989, Matos and three accomplices broke a glass door of a McDonald’s. on Seventh Avenue and 40th Street with a sledgehammer and They threatened the workers with a firearmcourt documents say.
One of the maintenance employees was able to escape and returned with Dwyer and two other officers.who saw Matos ran to the back of the restaurant and climbed a ladder to the roof. Immediately, Dwyer sprang into action and followed him.
Once on the roof, Matos pushed the young agent down a 25-foot air shaft.reported New York Post.
It took emergency service operators 45 minutes to recover his body and he was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
The Hispanic criminal was captured the next day.
In 1990 he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder. His three accomplices also faced charges.
If he is denied parole, Matos is scheduled to appear before the parole board in Julyaccording to New York State Correctional and Community Supervision.
Dwyer was a volunteer firefighter and devout Catholic who taught Sunday school at St. Vincent de Paul in Elmont, Long Island.
For his part, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, Patrick Hendry, declared the following:
“It is a travesty that this family of heroes has to keep reopening their wounds every few months, because the facts of the case will never change. PO Anthony Dwyer was a police hero who was killed protecting this city. The guy who took Anthony’s life is a cop killer…and he always will be. “Those facts were true a year ago and will still be true in three months or 30 years.”
Hendry asked “all New Yorkers to send messages to the parole board and demand that they face reality and keep this murderer behind bars, where he belongs.”
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