The man police pulled in from a 12th-story window of a Roxbury apartment building — where he dangled from a handle caught on his underwear — has been arraigned for the murder of his boyfriend, who was found stabbed to death inside that apartment.
Michael Perry, 37, of Dorchester, appeared in Suffolk Superior Court Wednesday and was charged with the murder of Jose Aponte, 43, his boyfriend. Perry was first charged Dec. 14 in Boston Municipal Court but the case was kicked up to the Superior Court following an indictment returned on March 8.
Perry was brought in from jail and appeared wearing a light blue button-up shirt, an upgrade from the Tyvek-type suit he wore during his initial appearance in BMC.
Perry pleaded not guilty to the charge. Clerk Magistrate Ed Curley ordered Perry held without bail.
“You know what happened,” Perry allegedly screamed at police officers who asked him what had occurred when they found Aponte’s “dead and bloody” body just inside the door of his Roxbury apartment at around 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 12, 2022.
When they asked if he was alone, he allegedly responded, according to the Commonwealth’s Statement of the Case, “Come and find out.”
When officers were able to push past Aponte’s body, they found “that the normally well-kept living space beyond was completely trashed” and furniture had been piled high to form a barricade, according to charging documents. Beyond that, police said, Perry was pacing around with a knife and a pair of scissors.
The SWAT team entered and told Perry to drop the weapons, a command prosecutors say Perry did not obey. An officer fired pellets from a “less lethal” weapon, one of which struck Perry in the head. He then ducked under cover and disappeared until officers heard his voice crying for help “as if from a distance.”
“They clambered through the debris and found that Perry had jumped or climbed out a window and was hanging upside down, prevented from falling to his death…
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