Sergeant Perry was killed while conducting routine rotary wing operations in a State Police helicopter when shortly after take-off, their aircraft suffered a catastrophic engine failure resulting in a crash of the helicopter, into the roof of the Harvard Sailing Center on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Sergeant Perry, a 14-year-veteran, was 39 and a member of the 63rd RTT (1981) assigned to the Air Wing. He leaves behind his wife and two children.
