FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: FEBRUARY 28, 2017
RE: PRESS RELEASE – PEOPLE V. EARL EDWARDS, JR.
On February 28, 2017,
prior to the completion of jury selection, Earl Edwards, Jr. pleaded guilty to Murder
in the 2nd Degree.
Earl Edwards, Jr.
was charged by indictment with Murder in the Second Degree for killing Rameen
Perry on May 26th, 2016 at approximately 3:20 a.m. in the Village of
Saugerties. On the morning of the
murder, Edwards broke into the house of his estranged wife and stabbed Perry in
the heart which caused his death.
Immediately after Killing Perry, Edwards fled the scene to New York City
where he purchased a train ticket to South Carolina. Edwards was intercepted in Washington D.C. by
members of the Amtrak Police Department and extradited back to Ulster County.
The case was
prosecuted by Chief Assistant District Attorney Michael Kavanagh and Senior
Assistant District Attorney Clifford Owens.
Edwards is scheduled to be sentenced by the Hon. Donald A. Williams on April
25th, 2017. The defendant faces a sentence from 15 to life to 25 to
life in state prison.
