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    Gary Lee Perry, Jr. Sentenced to LWOP in 2017 CA Slayings of Brennen Julian Fairhead and Scott Alex Gaffey




    Suspect in Woodward Lake double murder makes first court appearance

    BY PABLO LOPEZ
    The Fresno Bee

    A Fresno man suspected of killing two people in the Woodward Lake neighborhood of northeast Fresno made his first court appearance Wednesday. He faces charges of double murder, which could get him the death penalty.

    A criminal complaint accuses 21-year-old Gary Lee Perry Jr. of killing Brennen Julian Fairhead and Scott Alex Gaffey on Dec. 14 for financial gain.

    Perry also is charged in Fresno County Superior Court with the attempted murder of Michael Rackney and burglary.

    An arraignment for Perry was rescheduled for Jan. 5 so his defense lawyer can have more time to gather evidence.

    Perry, wearing shackles and a red jail jumped, looked around the packed courtroom but was mostly silent. The judge granted attorney Jason Sorensen’s request that Perry not be photographed in the courtroom.

    If convicted, Perry faces either a death sentence or life in prison. The District Attorney’s Office is still investigating, so has not determined whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty.

    After the killings, police Chief Jerry Dyer said Perry confessed to killing Gaffney and Fairhead, both 21 years old and longtime friends.

    Gaffney and Fairhead were found about 8 p.m. Dec. 14 suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the 10000 block of Grouse Run in northeast Fresno.

    Dyer said all three were in a car before the shooting – Fairhead in the driver’s seat and Gaffney and Perry in the back for what police described as a prescription narcotics drug deal.

    Fairhead was shot inside the vehicle; Gaffney was hit in the back as he got out and tried to run away, Dyer said. Perry is believed to have fled, then returned to fire additional rounds at the men before driving away in the car, the chief said.

    Gaffney’s body was found on a sidewalk and Fairhead’s in a roadway. Dyer said it wasn’t known whether the shooter and two victims had previously been in the Grouse Run area.

    The getaway vehicle was left about a half mile away, where Perry is said to have dumped the gun into a drain and gone into a restaurant near Friant and Fort Washington roads.

    From video of the shooting obtained by police, investigators were able to identify the suspect as a man wearing a puffy jacket with a furry hood. Someone contacted police, saying they saw a man who matched that description at a restaurant. He looked nervous, the tipster said, and asked to use the bathroom before leaving.

    Police caught up to Perry the next morning at Fairhead’s home in the 5200 block of San Pablo Avenue, where he sometimes stayed. He tried to get in but did not have a key. Officers missed him the first time but were waiting when he came back.

    The gun was recovered, Dyer said.

    http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/...190777794.html

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    January 6, 2018

    Locked cell phones could help police in Woodward Lake shooting investigation

    By ABC 30 News

    During his court appearance Friday morning, Fairhead's mother made sure she was seated where she could look her son's roommate who is accused of killing him right in the eye.

    "It's unfortunate to know kids at this age are involved drug dealing or having the possession of a firearm and as we have stressed over and over anytime you're involved in that narcotics lifestyle there's a potential for somebody to be seriously injured or killed," said Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer.

    Dyer says the Department of Justice is still processing evidence from the car Perry fired shots in, and are waiting to receive data from their locked cell phones.

    A search warrant led officers to find a large amount of Xanax pills, counterfeit money and amphetamine used to make ecstasy in a safe at Fairhead's house.

    "We do know based on the items that were found in the safe that it was very apparent there were narcotics dealing going on," said Dyer.

    Surveillance video caught part of the shooting on camera and has been used as part of the investigation in this double murder that took two young lives by someone they thought was a friend.

    "They were friends, at some point in time for whatever reason Gary pulled out a gun and shot both of them and killed them, and then ultimately chased after a third victim and shot at him as well, so difficult to say why but we believe the motive was robbery," said Dyer.

    https://abc30.com/locked-cell-phones...ation/2869256/
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    Man gets life in prison for 2017 double murder in Fresno

    By Stephen Hawkins
    FOX26

    FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) —A man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the Dec. 14, 2017 murders of two men near Woodward Lakes in Fresno.

    26-year-old Gary Perry of Fresno was convicted of killing Brennen Fairhead and Scott Gaffney, as well as the attempted murder of Michael Rackley.

    Perry was found guilty in May of two counts of 1st Degree Murder and one count of Attempted Murder as well as enhancements for the personal use of a firearm.

    Perry was arrested by the Fresno Police Department the day after the killings.

    Evidence presented at trial showed that Perry was in a vehicle in the Woodward Lakes area with all three of the victims when he shot Fairhead and Gaffney multiple times, killing both, and wounded Rackley.

    At a news conference, then-Police Chief Jerry Dyer said Perry confessed to the murders after being questioned about the shootings.

    Dyer said Perry took off in the car where the shooting happened but was spotted at a restaurant and later identified from a surveillance video.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/kmph.co...ief-jerry-dyer

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