Iraq vet arrested on charges of attempted murder [View All]

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Source: TimesRecord

BRUNSWICK — A U.S. Navy medical corpsman recently returned from combat duty in Iraq awaits arraignment in Cumberland County Jail today on charges of attempted murder. Police deployed a Taser on Thursday when they discovered Victor Perez, 24, chasing his wife with a butcher knife, according to Brunswick police Lt. Shawn O'Leary.

Just before 2 p.m. Thursday, Brunswick police responded to 14 Independence Drive, an area of Brunswick Naval Air Station housing, after a woman called 911 to report that her husband was chasing her with a butcher knife and she was hiding in the car. She was also concerned about her two small children, who remained in the house.

As police arrived, Victor Perez, 24, smashed the driver's side window of the car in an attempt to reach his wife. The four responding officers ordered Perez to drop the knife and ordered the woman to run toward them, said O'Leary, who was on the scene. However, when Perez began to follow her and ran toward the officers, they all aimed their weapons at Perez and he stopped 12 to 15 feet from them.

"She had already run past us and we told him, 'Drop the knife,'" O'Leary said today. "Being that he had stopped, I had an officer at my side, Nehemiah Natress, who I knew was armed with a Taser. I instructed him to put his gun away (and) to grab the Taser. ... It was not even seconds ... (Perez) started to walk toward us, and we were at a point where deadly force was imminent. Officer Natress deployed his Taser and struck the individual. That Taser saved (Perez's) life."


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