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June 2, 2014
The widow of slain Norfolk police Officer Victor Decker said she’s been told charges will be dropped Monday against a man accused of killing her husband.
Raymond Lewis Perry faces several counts including capital murder in the 2010 slaying. Prosecutors dropped charges in March against Kareem Hasson Turner, the other man accused in the case.
Prosecutors soon after said they would no longer seek the death penalty against Perry. Now, Dawn Decker says the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office has informed her that Perry’s charges also will be dropped.
Attorneys and other officials are under a judge’s order not to discuss the case. An unplanned motions hearing was added late Friday to Monday’s Circuit Court docket.
Decker was found dead in October 2010, shot while off-duty after attending a fundraiser at the former Atlantis Gentlemen’s Club on Oceana Boulevard.
His case went cold for nearly two years. Perry was charged in summer 2012 with capital murder, first-degree murder, robbery and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Turner was charged a few months later with murder, use of a firearm and robbery.
Both maintained they did not kill Decker. Their attorneys said the case against them was built on the testimony of jailhouse informants, who should not be trusted.
When he dropped the charges against Turner, Commonwealth’s Attorney Colin Stolle said his office had discovered that one witness, and possibly two, had been lying. Without their testimony, he did not have enough evidence to prosecute.
Stolle said a week later he would no longer seek the death penalty for Perry because of those same two witnesses.
Turner walked free from the Virginia Beach city jail in March, but Perry is serving nearly 97 years in prison for other crimes.
Perry’s trial had been scheduled to begin Sept. 30.
