Help keep cop-killer Eddie Matos, DIN# 90T4422, in prison for life for the 1989 murder of NYPD P.O. Anthony T. Dwyer. Please help us oppose parole by sending a letter to Ms. M. Kopp, Deputy Superintendent of Programs, Green Haven Correctional Facility, 594 NY-216, Stormville, NY 12582 no later than November 30, 2021. We have included the DEA’s letter below:
Ms. M. Kopp
Deputy Superintendent of Programs
Green Haven Correctional Facility
594 NY-216
Stormville, NY 12582
RE: Eddie Matos, DIN # 90T4422
Dear Ms. Kopp:
On behalf of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, Inc., we urge the State of New York to deny parole to New York State prisoner Eddie Matos, currently serving a 25-years-to-life sentence for mercilessly killing a New York City Police Officer in cold blood.
On October 17, 1989, Eddie Matos and three other accomplices attempted to burglarize a McDonald’s fast food restaurant at Seventh Avenue near 40th Street in midtown Manhattan. In the wee hours of the morning, they used a sledge hammer to smash open the glass doors, only to surprise six McDonald’s construction workers.
The robbers herded the workers at gunpoint into a back room where they then tried to open a safe, but one of the workers escaped and ran to Times Square, where he found three Police Officers, including P.O. Anthony T. Dwyer of the Midtown South Precinct.
The Officers ran to the McDonald’s and crawled through the shattered glass doors, where they apprehended one of the burglars. Matos and another perpetrator crawled up a ladder to the roof. Officer Dwyer followed and caught up with Matos. In the ensuing struggle, Matos pushed Dwyer over a two-foot railing, killing him. Dwyer’s crumpled body torturously lay in a ventilation shaft until emergency rescue: his bones broken and his internal organs ruptured. Within a period of time, Officer Dwyer died from his injuries.
Now, perpetrator Eddie Matos thinks that he deserves parole. This is an affront to the family of Officer Dwyer, to all the members of law enforcement, and to law-abiding citizens everywhere.
Officer Dwyer, who was survived by grieving parents and siblings, was only 23 years old at the time of his death. He had spent his short professional and personal life in public service: as a member of the NYPD, and as a volunteer firefighter on Long Island. He also taught religious studies at his local parish.
Eddie Matos made life choices, too: becoming a career criminal, a robber, and a cop-killer. He is housed at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York State.
The Detectives’ Endowment Association of the Police Department of the City of New York urges the New York State Division of Parole to fulfill its obligation to safeguard the citizens of New York by keeping cop-killers like Eddie Matos behind bars for life.
We respectfully request that the New York State Division of Parole deny the parole petition of Eddie Matos.
Sincerely,
Paul DiGiacomo
President
