Best intentions : The education and killing of Edmund Perry

"Examines the life and death of Edmund Perry, a 1985 graduate of a prestigious prep school who was shot to death after a mugging in June 1985."@en
"Examines the life and death of Edmund Perry, a 1985 graduate of a prestigious prep school who was shot to death after a mugging in June 1985."
""Mr. Anson is interested in exploring Edmund Perry's short life, especially his education -- the irony that someone who had already traveled so far would end up lying on a sidewalk so close to where he had grown up, a cop's bullet in his belly. Perry had not only attended Exeter, he had also done well there, and he had also studied in Spain for a year. He had become friendly with a wide circle of black and white students and with a number of teachers in that distinguished northern New England setting....How could it happen that someone who spent years in such an environment could come to such an end? The author sought out Perry's mother and father, his friends and former teachers, in Harlem and at Exeter. Their comments are the heart of this well-told, melancholy story -- so much praise for such a promising life, so much bewilderment and outrage over its outcome." Robert Coles, The New York Times Book Review."@en