Edwards
SAUGERTIES – A 40-year-old Village of Saugerties man was stabbed
to death early Thursday morning and a suspect was taken into custody hours
later on an Amtrak train in Washington, DC.
Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra said Rameen Perry, was found in
residence at 8A Malden Avenue in the Village of Saugerties at around 3:23
a.m. He had sustained several stab wounds and died shortly after arrival
to the Health Alliance Hospital Broadway Campus in Kingston.
The suspect, Earl Edwards, 26, of old Stage Road in Saugerties, fled the
scene before police arrived.
Shortly after 2:30 p.m., he was located on a passenger train in Washington
and taken into custody by plain clothes members of Amtrak Police.
Saugerties Police were assisted by State Police, the Ulster County Sheriff’s
Office, Kingston and Poughkeepsie city police departments and investigators
from the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office.
