October 24, 2011 Brevard Grand Jury Indicts Man on Tennessee Death Row For 2003 Melbourne Murder

Brevard Grand Jury Indicts Man on Tennessee Death Row For 2003 Melbourne Murder The Brevard County Grand Jury returned a first-degree murder indictment against Henry Lee Jones, a 48-year-old South Florida man who is on death row in Tennessee for the murders there of an elderly couple in 2003. The Brevard indictment is for the murder of nineteen-year-old Carlos Perez, a Wilton Manors, Fl., man found dead on August 27, 2003 in the Super 8 Motel on U.S. Highway 1 in Melbourne. Jones had been a suspect in the Melbourne murder for some time. Melbourne Detective Bonnie Rinck established that Jones and Perez were associates in Ft. Lauderdale and Jones was involved in a traffic stop in South Brevard a day or two before the murder. The Grand Jury heard from the Brevard County Medical Examiner, two Melbourne Police Detectives, a Melbourne Police Crime Scene Technician, a former FDLE latent print examiner and a FBI DNA analyst before returning the indictment. Assistant State Attorney Michael Hunt said Jones will be returned to Brevard in the future to face the charge. Jones was convicted in May 2009 and sentenced to death in Tennessee for the death of an elderly couple in a suburb of Memphis. Lynne Bumpus-Hooper Communications and Research Assistant for State Attorney Norm Wolfinger office--321-617-7548 website--sa18.state.fl.us pager--321-635-3648

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