A killer who fatally shot an NYPD cop in the head in Brooklyn nearly 40 years ago is up for release — but the victim’s outraged daughter wants him to remain behind bars for the “for the rest of his life.”
Francisco Rodriguez was 22 and had been out of prison on parole for just 42 days when he killed Transit Officer Robert Venable on Sept. 22, 1987.
“It doesn’t matter if he is a model prisoner or if he helped others,” Januari Venable, who was 8 when her dad was murdered, told the state Parole Board on Oct. 11. “Because of him I didn’t get to have a dad. I didn’t get to have somebody there for me that could tell me everything would be all right.”
Now 58, Rodriguez is behind bars at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County. If he is paroled, he will become the 43rd cop killer freed by the state since 2017.