A murder case has been opened at the Hollywood Walk of Fame for beating, stabbing
A man with a history of alleged violence in Sacramento and Los Angeles was charged Monday with murder in connection with a deadly daytime gang attack on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last month, authorities said.
Patrick Randall Perry, 55, is the fourth defendant charged in the May 20 slaying of Berry Le’Mar Henderson, 37, near Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue.
Henderson was waiting for the bus when he was attacked by Perry’s dog, and he stabbed himself in self-defense, Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. He said. Daniel Ilacqua said during the trial on Monday afternoon.
Perry and three other men chased Henderson across the street and attacked him, punching him and hitting the man with a “metal bat” and what Ilacqua described in court as a baton “attached” to a Taser.
When Henderson dropped the knife he had used on the dog, Perry stabbed him with it, Ilacqua said.
Bruce Lamont Fuller Jr., 30, Isaul Hernandez, 36, and Robert Anthony Garcia, 33, were arrested the day of the attack and charged in Henderson’s death last week, according to the criminal complaint. Perry was arrested on May 28, according to an LAPD spokesman.
“Barry was an innocent man. A man who never hurt anyone,” said his sister, O’koia Nixon, during Henderson’s vigil last week in Hollywood. Nixon was one of the few relatives of Henderson who attended Monday’s hearing.
Perry is being held in lieu of $2 million bail. Deputy Public Defender Carlos Bido said in court that Perry has retired and received an honorable discharge from the military.
He has multiple convictions in Sacramento and avoided prison last year after being offered some form of mental health diversion, according to the criminal complaint and Ilacqua. In 2024, Ilacqua said, Perry punched one man and hit another with his cane before ordering his dog to attack them both. The victims were outside with their young children at the time, Ilacqua said in court.
The change request was granted last year after Perry argued that he has mental health issues because of his military service, Ilacqua said.
Perry served in the U.S. Army from 1989 to 1993 and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after he was discharged, according to a letter he filed as part of his plea deal last year.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County public defender’s office declined to comment.
Perry has been accused of violence at the intersection where the May 20 shooting occurred.
He was arrested outside the Church of Scientology’s Los Angeles Information Center on the Walk of Fame in January 2024 after allegedly punching someone, according to NBC Los Angeles. Police told NBC at the time that Perry had no affiliation with the church.
Local activist William Gude, who writes online under the handle Film Police LA, reported Perry to police officials in 2024 and provided a video of the man using a rolling baton to threaten someone. That incident also happened at the intersection outside the church where he was arrested.
In the 2024 incident, video showed Perry holding the leash of a dog similar to the one seen biting Henderson in surveillance footage of the beating last month.
Police officers wrote to Gude in 2024 and said that an investigation had been opened. The LAPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment on those charges Monday.
Between 2012 and 2015, Perry was also convicted of assault likely to cause bodily harm, domestic violence, possession of ammunition by a felon and fleeing Sacramento County police, according to the criminal complaint.
