“It was a message to all of us, that we were no longer safe on the streets.” “This wasn’t just a cop killing,” police officials said. The assassination sent scores of cops onto the streets of south Jamaica, in the most massive manhunt ever conducted up to that time. “They couldn’t even read the name on his chest,” a detective said. The first officers to arrive at the scene from Byrne’s precinct were unable to identify him.
Prosecutors said Byrne never had a chance to reach for his police revolver. Three more flashes sent three rounds into Byrne’s head and the young cop was dead – assassinated on the orders of imprisoned former druglord Howard “Pappy” Mason. Byrne was just turning to his left when the first round tore through the side of his face, exiting at the top of his skull.Ī second round tore into the dying cop’s right temple. At the same time, McClary, standing at the driver’s side of the police car, raised a nickel-plated revolver roughly eight inches from Byrne’s head. Todd Scott suddenly appeared in he passenger side window of Byrne”s marked car and shouted “Assgh!” at the young cop. The panel turned down two previous parole requests by the four killers.īyrne, 22, assigned to the 103 Precinct in Jamaica, sat alone in a police car on the night of February 26, 1988, guarding the home of a man who witnessed and spoke up against drug dealers who ravaged his Jamaica neighborhood.Ī “canine cage” blocked Byrne’s view of the streets behind him, so Byrne couldn’t see the yellow Dodge in his rearview mirror as it rolled up toward the end of Inwood Street, with his assassins inside. Todd Scott, Scott Cobb, David McClary and Philip Copeland, who were convicted of assassinating Police Officer Eddie Byrne more than 28 years ago, will renew their bid for freedom at a November hearing before members of the State Parole Board. “I strongly urge you to make sure that Edward Byrne’s ruthless assassins leave prison only in coffins,” Lynch wrote. In a letter to the parole board sent prior tohis appearance, Lynch urged the panel to “grant the same mercy to the four killers” as they showed Eddie Byrne. “We pledge that we will do everything in our power to ensure that they are never granted parole,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
The head of the city’s largest police union appeared before members of the State Parole Board on October 28, where he urged the panel to deny a third bid for freedom by four crackheads who slaughtered a young Queens cop in 1988.
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