NYPD cop-killer Eddie Matos’ seventh bid for freedom denied – however he’ll get one other likelihood in 2 months

Cop-killer Eddie Matos is preserving his present deal with — the maximum-security Inexperienced Haven Correctional Facility upstate.

Matos, who’s serving a 25-years-to-life sentence for the October 1989 homicide of Anthony Dwyer, has been denied parole for a seventh time, officers mentioned this week.

“My household and I are very proud of the result. Dissatisfied that we’ve to do that another time in lower than two months,” Dwyer’s sister, Maureen Brisette, 45, instructed The Publish.

“Hope the board continues to do what’s proper and retains this cop killer behind bars.”

A two-person parole panel was break up in April 2023 on whether or not to set Matos free, however a three-person panel subsequently voted to maintain Matos behind bars.

That call was then scrapped as a consequence of a technicality, paving the best way for the board’s most up-to-date vote.

His subsequent bid for freedom is available in June.

“It’s completely insane that this cop-killer will get one other shot at freedom only a few weeks after being denied,” Police Benevolent Affiliation President Patrick Hendry mentioned.

“This hero household didn’t get an opportunity to carry their brother and son again, and but they need to maintain reliving that nightmare each few months to maintain his killer behind bars.”

Dwyer’s household won’t ever forgive Matos for his lethal deed a long time in the past.

On Oct. 17, 1989, Matos and three accomplices shattered the glass door of a McDonald’s on Seventh Avenue and fortieth Road with a sledgehammer, and rounded up the staff at gunpoint, court docket papers present.

A upkeep employee escaped, returning with Dwyer — who had labored at Midtown South Precinct for 2 and a half years — and two different officers, who noticed Matos run towards the again of the restaurant and scramble up a ladder to the roof. Dwyer shortly adopted.

As soon as on the roof, Matos shoved the younger officer down a 25-foot air shaft.

Matos was captured the following day.

He was sentenced in 1990 to 25 years to life after being convicted of second-degree homicide.

“He can rot in hell,” Dwyer’s mother, Marge, mentioned of Matos.

Dwyer was a volunteer firefighter and religious Catholic who taught Sunday college at St. Vincent de Paul in Elmont, Lengthy Island.