Parole denied in 1988 Queens cop killing
Photo credit: Handout | Officer Edward R. Byrne, 22, was shot in the head as he sat alone in a patrol car outside the house of a narcotics case witness on 107th Avenue in South Jamaica on Feb. 26, 1988.
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One of the men convicted of the execution-style slaying of NYPD Officer Edward Byrne in 1988 was denied his bid to get parole, state officials said yesterday.
It was Scott Cobb's first try to get out of state prison where he is serving a 25-years-to-life sentence for the killing of Byrne. Cobb was interviewed by parole board commissioners Ellen Alexander and Jared Brown on Wednesday at the...
