Update (July 7, 2021):  Jazmyn Suszynski, a resident who says she was harassed by Edward Cagney Mathews for over a year, talked about feeling traumatized by her former neighbor after he made her year of living in Mount Laurel “horrible.”

Suszynski noted that after she moved away from the complex, Mathews began harassing her after he found her new address and spray-painted “I am a n****r who sucks c***s” onto her car.

“It was pretty traumatizing,” she told Blavity. “You move to what’s supposed to be a good neighborhood and worry about literally getting harmed every second of the day.”

The New Jersey mother, who is now a real estate agent and investor, says her concerns about Mathews to police were constantly overlooked. 

“It was defeating,” she continued. “I was stressed 24/7 worrying if this guy is going to break in my house and do something worse.”

After the Mount Laurel community joined in solidarity to advocate for Mathews' arrest on Monday, the 45-year-old was taken into custody and charged with bias intimidation and assault. 

On Wednesday, Susynski referenced Matthew's wife in a Facebook post, noting how she is “just as bad as him.”

“So since Cagneys wife (Shannon Irene Schwartzhoff) wants to make comments like this is being blown out of proportion let me show you who she is too,” she wrote on Facebook. “I  tried leaving her out of it for personal reasons I know about her however..SHE IS JUST AS BAD.”


“When cagneys BS charges he tried to press on me AFTER I Filed on him did not work and no probable cause was found..She made more false claims saying she was scared and tried to do charges as well,” she continued. “She was so scared yet here she is knocking at my door THE NEXT DAY after she signed she was in fear for her life…  She felt so uneasy but here her husband is admitting and apologizing for how uneasy he's made me feel in this letter I posted.”

Susyznski revealed that she used to record every time she went to her car and entered her house for over a year. 

“Shanon also Implied I was on section 8 to live in Mount laurel…I  HAVE RECEIPTS SO TRY IT,” she wrote. “My advice is to mind your business because at the end of the day you condoned, enabled this, and made my life miserable right along with him when you knew the situation with my son.”

Original (July 6, 2021): A New Jersey man was taken into police custody Monday after reports that he's repeatedly harassed and used racial slurs against his neighbors reports ABC7 New York. 

In a video that has since gone viral, Edward Cagney Mathews can be seen calling one of his neighbors a “f**king n****r” and a "monkey" in his Mount Laurel, New Jersey apartment complex on Friday. 

“Go talk to these f**king n****rs,” Cagney says to a police officer responding to the confrontation. “Let them know what I’m all about and what f**king rights they have.” 


The 45-year-old grows increasingly angry towards the end of the confrontation, where he discloses his address and shouts “Come f**king see me!”

A bunch of people did just that on Monday. 

“He said to pull up. We pulled up," she said according to the Washington Post. "We’re not going to tolerate this anymore.”

"The guy is off his rocker and they need to get him out,” resident Aliya Robinson told Fox29. “He cannot be racially harassing and assaulting people, spitting on people, busting down doors, breaking windows and writing white lives matter on stuff.” 

Robinson’s daughter Jazmyn Suszyski also shared that Mathews has harassed her and her children in the past and made their year of living in Mount Laurel “horrible.” 

"When we first moved there, I guess he didn’t think minorities should live there, so he kicked my door in with my children there," Suszyski said.

In a Facebook post, Suszyski wrote that Mathews “made threats, filed false complaints” amongst a plethora of other harassment tactics. 


After the video circulated on social media, a crowd of protesters gathered outside Mathews’ home, beginning with approximately 20 people and expanding to over 100. 

"People are out here because they're angry," Marcus Sibley of the Southern Burlington County NAACP told NBC10 Philadelphia. "They felt they could say the most horrible thing you could say to a Black person and there would be no repercussions." 

After hours of demonstrating, protesters rejoiced as they watched police take Mathews into custody. 

According to the Mount Laurel Police Department, Mathews has a history of complaints filed against him numerous times from neighbors but had faced no repercussions.  

"He had been brought to court before but those charges were either dismissed or no probable cause was ever found," Mount Laurel Police Chief Stephen Riedener said. "We had investigated him several times. But until this particular incident where the neighbors had video available from the ring cameras and things of that nature, we were finally able to get the evidence that we needed to actually charge him with the crimes he was committing."

In an interview with NBC10 prior to his arrest, Mathews, who has since been charged with bias intimidation and assault, apologized for his behavior which he attributed to a “lapse of judgment.”

"I've never been a racist," Mathews said. "I've made mistakes. Said racial slurs out of anger or being drunk. I may not be able to relate to communities of color but I am not a racist and I have the upmost respect for us as a community."

"I did not mean this," Mathews continued. "It was a lapse of judgment at a moment at my weakest point and my anger got the best of me."

Police are continuing to investigate the situation along with Mathews’ prior incidents of harassment.

“The Mount Laurel Police Department does not tolerate hate or bias intimidation in any form. This type of behavior is totally unacceptable,” a police spokesperson wrote. “We can assure our residents that incidents like this are thoroughly investigated and that those who commit such offenses will be held accountable for their actions.”

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