Matthew Cox

Matthew Cox is a former police detective from San Fierro, currently incarcerated at the Flint County Psychiatric Hospital. During his time there, he met and befriended Chloe Hill.
A lifelong sufferer of high-functioning autism, Matthew fell in love with Catalina Olsen in his senior year of high school. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a grocery bagger at a Walmart in Foster Valley. He proposed to Catalina in the summer of 2011, before joining the San Fierro Police Department later that year, in December.
In January 2015, Matthew was one of the youngest police officers in the history of the SFPD to take the detective's exam and pass. Assigned to the homicide desk, the long hours spent working on murder scenes led to him growing distant from Catalina, causing relationship problems.
In August 2015, Catalina and Matthew broke up, leading to a downward spiral of depression for Matthew, who's autism prevented him from ever fully coping with the loss. For the next two years, he focused his anxiety to his work, allowing him to be a successful and effective investigator, but by early 2018, he began to drink and abuse prescription opiates.
In July 2019, Matthew had almost fully recovered from the emotional trauma, with help from his friends and co-workers saving him from a total plunge into substance abuse. However, on July 19, a call for a domestic incident in Missionary Hill led to a male perpetrator aiming and firing a gun at Matthew. The three rounds missed him by about an inch, but the aftershock from the incident sent Matthew down a spiral of post-traumatic stress.
In December 2019, after vacation and talk-therapy proved fruitless, he was laid off from the San Fierro Police Department. He spent the next year homeless on the streets of San Fierro, fed by the city's homeless initiatives. By January 2021, however, he had developed a heroin addiction and schizophrenia, and an incident involving him tackling and severely beating a mother and her infant daughter led him to be imprisoned at the Flint County Psychiatric Hospital.
It is at the psychiatric hospital where he met and befriended Chloe Hill, who occasionally helped him break out of his autistic shell. However, his puppy-love attachment to her caused resentment from her fiancé, Vince Torelli, who felt challenged and almost cuckolded by Matthew.
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