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...Stanford after graduating with honors from New Hampshire's prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy. Yet on a spring night last year, only ten days after graduation, Edmund Perry lay fatally wounded, a police officer's bullet in his abdomen, and his brother Jonah was being sought. Plainclothes Officer Lee Van Houten swore he had been attacked by Edmund and another man, whom the police later identified as Jonah. Authorities claimed the brothers assaulted Van Houten because they wanted money to go to the movies...
...allegations were met with skepticism and anger in Harlem, and last week a Manhattan jury acquitted Jonah of three counts of robbery and assault. Because Van Houten, 25, had been unable to identify Jonah as the other assailant, the prosecution's case depended for the most part on secondhand testimony. A neighbor of the Perrys' stated that Jonah told her he and Edmund had "run into some static" when they attacked a "d.t.," street slang for a + detective. One juror said later that the state's main witnesses "were not believable, not solid...
Edmund Perry was fatally wounded by a white New York police officer, Lee Van Houten, 24, whose two-year record on the force was unblemished. Last week amid a storm of community outrage and accusations of police misconduct and racism, a Manhattan grand jury cleared Van Houten of any wrongdoing. The panel also charged Perry's older brother, Jonah, 19, a second-year engineering student at Cornell University, with assault and attempted robbery in the scuffle with Van Houten that resulted in Edmund's death. Neither Edmund nor Jonah, who had also gone to a tony prep school (Westminster...
That issue and countless other questions may never be answered to anyone's satisfaction. But according to police, 23 witnesses have come forward to support Van Houten's version of events. A plainclothes policeman, Van Houten was patrolling the perimeter of the 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...
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...