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...Harlem's mean streets, the brothers were exemplars of the community's abiding but often unrealized potential. Jonah Perry, 19, was a student at Cornell; Edmund, 17, was headed for 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...
...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 in Simsbury, Conn.), had ever been in trouble with...
...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 Times. "They were models for the other kids." Said a former teacher at Edmund's funeral: "Edmund's life was a symbol of success to all those who had encouraged, supported, coached and applauded as he began his long climb...
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...
While doctors at St. Luke's tried to save Edmund's life, Jonah arrived at the hospital with his mother. He told police that he had not been with Edmund in the park but had learned of his brother's shooting via a neighborhood drug dealer who had heard it on the street. Offering at first to help police locate the dealer, Jonah changed his mind on the advice of a family lawyer and, further, declined to testify on his own behalf before the grand jury last week...