NYPD unions are railing against the scheduled release next month of one of the men convicted of gunning down NYPD Officer Edward Byrne as he sat in his patrol car in Jamaica, Queens, in February 1988.
Scott Cobb, one of four men sentenced to 25 years to life in 1989 in connection with the assassination of the 22-year-old officer as he kept watch on the home of a police witness, will be released as early as Aug. 9.
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