Help keep cop-killer David McClary (DIN #89A7511) in prison for life! He is serving time at Wende Correctional Center for the 1988 murder of NYPD P.O. Edward Byrne, and has a parole hearing in April of 2025. Pease send a letter, or cut and paste this letter, on your own letterhead and send it to the Parole Board as listed. Thank you!
Supervising Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator
New York State Division of Parole
Wende Correctional Center
3040 Wende Road
Alden, NY 14004-1187
RE: David McClary, DIN #89A7511
Dear Members of the Parole Board:
I strongly oppose the parole of David McClary, DIN #89A7511.
In the very early morning hours of February 26, 1988, New York City Police Department Officer Edward Byrne, a 22-year-old rookie with only seven months on the job, was shot in the head and killed in cold blood by four remorseless, vicious, drug-dealing guns-for-hire while Byrne was guarding a witness in a narcotics case. One of those killers was David McClary, DIN #89A7511. Officer Byrne was sitting in his car at the time when four men approached his vehicle, knocked on the window, and then opened fire at point blank range. Officer Byrne’s death was ordered by a jailed drug kingpin named Howard “Pappy” Mason whose sole motive was to exert his power by having a New York City cop murdered at will and at random.
Four criminals were cheaply bought by Pappy Mason for a few thousand dollars. They bragged, in graphic detail, to their friends and later to Investigators how they murdered young Officer Byrne. They were tried and sentenced to 25-years-to-life on murder and weapons charges. McClary is currently being housed at Wende Correctional Facility.
Almost four decades later, the shock and horror of this brazen and despicable crime has not diminished. Officer Byrne’s death does not seem all that long ago. It is hard for me to believe that McClary is eligible, once again, for parole, especially since he remains as remorseless as he was when he decided to gun down a hardworking public servant just to seek revenge for Mason who had firebombed the witness’ home and threatened her life simply for complaining about drug-dealing in her neighborhood.
I believe it would be a terrible travesty of justice if David McClary was released from prison. He brutally murdered a young, enthusiastic Policeman who was dedicating his life to protecting and serving the vulnerable. McClary tore apart the family of Officer Byrne, as well as those of his friends and colleagues. The case shocked even the most hardened New Yorker and ripped the collective heart out of our City at a time when the entire nation was gripped in the escalating crime rate, terror, violence, and death of the 1980s crack epidemic.
Much has been written and publicized about this case, because of its callous brutality and senselessness. It still defies imagination, no matter how many years come and go.
I believe there is only one answer to the question of parole for David McClary or any of his heartless cohorts. That answer is “No!”
I urge the Parole Division of the State of New York to deny the parole petition of David McClary, DIN #89A7511.
As far as I am concerned, this criminal lost his right to freedom the moment he agreed to stalk the streets of New York City in search of an honest young Police Officer to murder. I believe cop-killers, especially those who despicably execute public servants in cold blood, should stay behind bars for life.
Thank you for considering my position.
Sincerely,
