Getaway driver in 1988 assassination of NYPD Officer Eddie Byrne granted parole

[Kamaji]

Getaway driver in 1988 assassination of NYPD Officer Eddie Byrne granted parole

By Alex Oliveira   
July 26, 2023

The getaway driver in the 1988 assassination of NYPD Officer Edward Byrne has been granted parole — a move the city’s police union called “especially outrageous” on Wednesday.

Scott Cobb, 60, could be released from prison as early as next month after serving 34 years behind bars for his part in the gangland execution of the rookie cop that shocked the nation at the height of the crack epidemic.

“All cop-killer paroles are infuriating,” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry, “But this one is especially outrageous considering the shockwaves this crime sent through this precinct, the NYPD, the city and nation.”

Byrne was 22 and had been on the force for just a month when he was ambushed by Cobb and three accomplices while guarding the home of a witness who was planning to testify against drug kingpin Howard “Pappy” Mason.

Cobb drove the gunmen to the South Jamaica, Queens intersection where Byrne was parked in the early hours of February 26, 1988 — and distracted the officer while the killers unloaded five rounds into his head at point-blank range.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/getaway-driver-in-1988-assassination-of-nypd-officer-eddie-byrne-granted-parole/

[PeteS in CA]

Cobb was not an I-didn't-know-they-were-going-to-do-that getaway driver, he was an active participant in the murder.

[Kamaji]

Cobb was not an I-didn't-know-they-were-going-to-do-that getaway driver, he was an active participant in the murder.

Indeed.