‘We don’t need to see 2 young people’s lives destroyed:’ Attorney says teen in deadly Brevard crash thought he hit deer

The attorney for Aidan Perry, the 19-year-old accused in a crash that killed 15-year-old Isaiah Irizarry, said Perry is “absolutely beside himself with grief” and believed he had hit a deer, not a person, on a dark Brevard County road in June.Defense attorney Jason Downs told News 6 on Wednesday Perry does not deny he was behind the wheel or that he left the scene. But Downs argued there is no probable cause in the case because, he said, there is no proof Perry knew he had struck a person.“They have to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Mr. Perry knew that he hit a person,” Downs said. “Based on the evidence, there’s no proof of that.”Perry, who recently turned 19, is now out of jail. Troopers said he hit and killed Irizarry on an unlit road in June.Downs said Perry immediately went home after the crash and told his mother he believed he had hit another deer. Downs pointed to the arrest affidavit which described the area where the crash happened as a “dark unlit roadway.”“When he l