Word: edmund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...park that night, hoping to catch some of the thieves who had been breaking into the cars of doctors from nearby St. Luke's hospital. As Van Houten recounts it, he approached the hospital on the dark side of the street and was attacked from behind by Edmund Perry and an accomplice, who threw him to the ground and beat him nearly unconscious. As his assailants rifled his pockets shouting "Give it up!" (a demand for his money), Van Houten pulled his service revolver and fired three shots. One of them struck Edmund Perry in the abdomen. The second assailant...
...past the Perry family seemed to have done everything right. Edmund, ^ whose hard-working mother Veronica taught in a local Headstart program and served on the community school board, had wanted to become a doctor, but was also considering a career in politics. He had planned to spend the summer working at a Wall Street investment house before heading for Stanford. To teachers, neighbors and friends of the family, the Perry brothers stood as prime examples of what the black community's youth could achieve. "Everybody looked up to Jonah and Edmund," Sheila Wright, a neighbor, told the New York...
...Edmund's classmates at Exeter recalled him as a disciplined youth who believed that accomplished blacks had a special responsibility to prove racist stereotypes false. Said Andre Francois, an Exeter friend, in an interview with the Times: "He believed in his ability to show that we are something in a society that has given us an inferior image...
Perry did well at the demanding school, earning honors status. He also participated in the School Year Abroad program, spending his junior year in Spain. Edward Sainatti, the resident director of the program, recalled in an interview with the Times that Edmund was "honest and forthright," but seemed to have "a chip on his shoulder." Edmund's mixed feelings about the new world opening before him were captured in the farewell note to Exeter that he wrote in his senior yearbook: "It's a pity that we part on less than a friendly basis," he wrote. "Work to adjust yourself...
...Edmund's friends may never know what happened on the night of Officer Van Houten's mugging. But police now say that witnesses have offered an explanation for the attempted robbery. According to the police, the crime was committed on impulse. Earlier that evening, the witnesses say, Edmund and Jonah had played basketball in a local school-yard, betting the price of a movie on the outcome. As it turned out, neither brother had any money. Police officials say that witnesses overheard the brothers planning a spur-of-the- moment robbery. An autopsy later showed traces of marijuana in Edmund...