A 42-year-old Scituate man was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty to the killing of 27-year-old chef Declan Perry. Perry's body was found Aug. 23 wrapped in blankets and duct tape in the backseat of a car parked outside a hospital emergency room. A preliminary autopsy identified deep hemorrhaging to the chest, back, and back of the head from blunt-force trauma, injuries to the face and neck, and neck injuries consistent with strangulation that occurred prior to death. Prosecutors allege the defendant told others the death was a drug overdose; the defense disputes the homicide charge.
"The medical examiner said all of these injuries to the neck were due to strangulation," Sprague said. "All of these injuries, according to the medical examiner, occurred prior to death."
"You heard the injuries that we have from a preliminary medical examiner's report at this time, and those are certainly very discerning, which led to us, among other things, regarding that this is a homicide and not just a drug overdose,"
"We are confident that as the facts unfold in this case, this will be an example of the Massachusetts State Police jumping to conclusions and charging someone with murder when the evidence makes clear that what took place, while a tragedy, was not a crime,"
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