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.