Cop killer Eddie Matos maintains his current address: the high-security Greenhaven Correctional Facility in the upstate.
Matos, who is serving a 25-year life sentence for the October 1989 murder of Anthony Dwyer, has been denied parole for the seventh time, authorities announced this week.
“My family and I are very happy with the results. We’re disappointed that we have to go through this all over again less than two months later,” said Dwyer’s sister, Maureen Brissett. 45) told the Post.
“I hope the board continues to do the right thing and keep this cop killer behind bars.”
In April 2023, a two-person parole board was divided on whether to release Matos, but a three-person panel later voted to keep him in prison.
That decision was later reversed due to a technicality, paving the way for the latest vote by the board.
His next attempt at freedom will take place in June.
Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said: “It’s absolutely insane that this cop-killer should be deprived of his freedom again just weeks after being denied it.”
“This heroic family never got the chance to bring back their brother and son, but they still have to keep reliving that nightmare every few months to keep the killer behind bars. .”
Dwyer’s family will never forgive Matos for his deadly actions decades ago.
On October 17, 1989, Matos and three accomplices smashed the glass door of a McDonald’s on 7th Avenue and 40th Street with a sledgehammer, then rounded up employees at gunpoint, court documents say. is shown.
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The maintenance worker fled and returned with Dwyer, who has worked at the Midtown South Precinct for 2 1/2 years, and two other officers to find Matos running toward the back of the restaurant and using a ladder to climb onto the roof. I witnessed it. Dwyer soon followed.
Once on the roof, Matos pushed the young officer down a 25-foot air shaft.
Matos was captured the next day.
He was convicted of second-degree murder in 1990 and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
“He could rot in hell,” Dwyer’s mother, Marge, said of Matos.
Dwyer was a volunteer firefighter and a devout Catholic who taught Sunday school at St. Vincent de Paul in Elmont, Long Island.
