FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: JUNE 7, 2016
RE: PRESS RELEASE – PEOPLE V. EARL EDWARDS, JR.
An Ulster County
Grand Jury filed an indictment today in New York State Supreme Court charging Earl
Edwards, Jr. with Murder in the Second Degree for killing Rameen L. Perry on
May 26th, 2016, in the Village of Saugerties. The indictment charges that Edwards, with
intending to cause the death of Rameen Perry, caused his death.
The Office of the
Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide and determined the cause of death
to be the result of a perforation of the heart due to a stab wound to the
chest.
Edwards, Jr. is
scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment in Ulster County Court on June 9,
2016.
