Leon T. Perry

How they died

Deadly force

Officers responding to an apartment home about 1 p.m. Leon Perry had called 911 and was incoherent before putting on the phone a child who told dispatchers they needed help. Officers arrived at the complex, Seminole Hills, and Perry began yelling that people were going to get him. A 7-year-old boy who was bound by his wrists and neck came to police from the apartment. Officers untied him, and he said there had been an argument and that his mother had been assaulted. Officers heard a gunshot and entered the apartment. When they got inside, Perry pushed Blades' lifeless, bound body down the stairs. During a confrontation, officers shot and killed Perry and rescued a 4-year-old girl, also bound.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Leon T. Perry, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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