Richmond 2006's killing spree occurred over a seven-day period in January 2006 in and around Richmond, Virginia, USA; seven people, including four Harvey family members and three members of the Baskerville-Tucker family, were killed. The perpetrators were Ricky Javon Gray (March 9, 1977 - January 18, 2017) and his nephew Ray Joseph Dandridge (born January 24, 1977). Dandridge's girlfriend Ashley Baskerville helped the couple as an accomplice during their assassination and robbery until she became one of their victims. After Gray and Dandridge were arrested, two previous murders, including those of Gray's wife, and a near-fatal attack by the end of 2005 were associated with men.
Dandridge pleaded guilty to killing three Baskerville-Tucker victims in exchange for life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Gray is accused of mass murder in connection with the Harvey family's assassination, sentenced, and sentenced to death for the murder of Stella and Ruby Harvey, who are 9 and 4 years respectively. Gray's execution took place on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, at 21:42 via a deadly injection.
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Treva Gray's Assassination
On November 5, 2005, 35-year-old Treva Terrell Gray's body was severely beaten in a shallow grave next to Brookside Avenue in Washington, Pennsylvania, by a pedestrian. She married Gray, a 28-year-old former convict, about six months earlier, and lives with her husband in a house owned by her family; Dandridge, his nephew, moved with the couple after he was released from prison on October 26, 2005, after serving more than 10 years for armed robbery.
According to Treva's parents, the Grays fought bitterly, and they saw the claw marks on Ricky's forearm on the day Treva's body was found. While Gray and Dandridge were interviewed by Washington police, they were not considered suspects. Treva's mother, Marna Squires, alleged that the police were weak in investigating the deaths and suggested that Treva had died of a drug overdose. While the police decided that his death was suspicious at the time, no murder investigation was launched until after Gray's confession.
About a week after the discovery of their daughter's body, Treva's parents drove Dandridge away from their property; Dandridge then moved with his father in West Philadelphia. On December 23rd, Gray moved to live with his maternal grandmother in Arlington, Virginia. Dandridge left Philadelphia on Christmas Day to join Gray.
Attack on Ryan Carey
On December 31, 2005, 26-year-old Ryan Carey was attacked by two men who were later identified as Gray and Dandridge in front of her parents' house at 5100 North 25th Street block in Arlington. Carey suffered extensive blows and stab wounds to his chest, neck and arms in an almost fatal attack, and spent the next two weeks in a coma. He also permanently lost the use of his right arm.
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The Harvey Family
On the afternoon of January 1, 2006, the bodies of Kathryn, Bryan, Stella, and Ruby Harvey, were found dead in the basement of their burning house in the Woodland Heights district of Richmond, Virginia. The four-man family was beaten, slashed, and tied up with electrical wires and masking tape.
Kathryn Harvey (November 28, 1966 - January 1, 2006), 39, is one of the owners of a popular local toy store called World of Mirth in the district of Carytown, Richmond, and stepson actor Steven Culp. Her husband, Bryan Harvey (April 27, 1956 - January 1, 2006), 49, is a former member of the House of Freaks, a two-person rock band. Their daughters Stella (November 3, 1996 - January 1, 2006) and Ruby (July 4, 2001 - January 1, 2006) were 9 and 4. Bryan and Kathryn died of blunt trauma to the head, Stella inhaled smoke and blunt trauma in the head, and Ruby stabbed his back, one of which poked his lungs.
Chesterfield home invasion
On January 3, 2006, the couple living in Hollywood Drive in Chesterfield County, Virginia, were robbed by two men and a woman who had entered their house by pretending to ask for directions. Robbers stole some items including computers and televisions, as well as $ 800 cash. The husband was able to prevent the gang from tying them by drawing attention to his wife's disability and his need to help him.
The Baskerville-Tucker Family
On January 6, 2006, police received a call from a Chesterfield resident who worried about his 21-year-old daughter, Ashley Baskerville. The caller suspects that Gray and Dandridge, a former guest of the house and Ashley's former girlfriend, are involved in the Harvey murder. Police found the items at Chesterfield's home associated with the Harvey case, and raided the house on East Broad Rock Road where Ashley lived with her mother, Mary Baskerville-Tucker, 46, and stepfather, the 55-year-old Percyell. Food. Percyell worked as a forklift driver and Mary was hired at a dry cleaning company. The three members of the Baskerville-Tucker family were found dead, corked and tied up with plaster in their destroyed home. Percyell and Mary were also cut in the throat. The three men suffocated because the tape was wrapped around their heads. Ashley has a plastic bag wrapped around her head too, secured with masking tape.
Capture and recognition
On the morning of January 7, 2006, Gray and Dandridge were arrested in Philadelphia, where Dandridge's father Ronald Wilson lived. About an hour after the arrest, Dandridge confessed to killing Tuckers and Ashley Baskerville. Twelve hours after the arrest, Gray asks to speak to a detective, then proceeds to provide a detailed three-page confession in which he describes using a kitchen knife and a claw hammer to kill Harveys, stating "I do not believe the apology is strong enough. necessary. "In subsequent confession, he confessed to beating his wife Treva to death while Dandridge detained him, became an accomplice in Tucker-Baskerville's murder, and an attack on Ryan Carey.
On January 8, 2006, the police officially identified Ashley Baskerville as a participant in the Harvey murder, Chesterfield robbery, and robbery in his own home; this comes as a result of the above confessions as well as eyewitness testimony and other evidence. Baskerville had acted as a scout in parked cars while Gray and Dandridge entered Harvey's house, and he was found wearing a wedding ring Bryan Harvey. Gray and Dandridge testified that Baskerville had played a role as a victim and allowed himself to be bound as part of a plan to rob his mother and stepfather, but "something went wrong" and Gray "got tired of the girl, so he decided to kill him and take the car old ".
Litigation
Both Gray and Dandridge were tried at Richmond City Circuit Court in Virginia. On February 9, 2006, Gray was charged with five counts of mass murder in the Harvey murder: one charge for killing more than once in a three-year period, one charge for committing more than one murder in one act, one charge for murder by order of robbery , and two counts for killing a child under the age of 14. On the same day, Dandridge was accused of three massacres in Tucker-Baskerville's murder; the third count was then changed to include Dandridge's role in Harvey's murder.
Dandridge initially pleaded not guilty and was tried in September 2006, but before closing the argument, he changed his defense to guilty of three counts of mass murder as part of an agreement to receive life imprisonment without parole. He is currently imprisoned at Keen Mountain Border Center in Oakwood, Virginia, designated inmate number 1159354.
Gray pleaded not guilty, and his defense team sought relief by presenting evidence of physical and sexual abuse during childhood and the use of PCP during the crime. In August 2006, a jury found Gray guilty of five counts of capital murder after four days of trial and 30 minutes of consideration. The jury recommended that Gray receive the death penalty for the murder of Stella and Ruby Harvey, and live in jail for the three counts remaining. On October 23, 2006, Gray was sentenced to death.
In December 2006, Culpeper County also charged Gray for the murder of Sheryl Warner, 37-year-old law secretary and mother of three, found shot and hung with electric wires in the basement of her burning house in the town of Reva. Gray pleaded not guilty. On June 4, 2008, the indictment was suspended due to contradictory evidence.
Between May 2011 and November 2015, Gray's execution was set and then awaiting appeals in the commonwealth and federal courts. In November 2015, a panel from the Fourth Circuit rejected an appeal to the court. On January 19, 2016, Gray's execution was set for March 16, 2016, but again to allow Gray to appeal to the US Supreme Court.
In 2016, the US Supreme Court refused to hear Gray's case. In November 2016, Gray is scheduled to be executed on January 18, 2017. His defense plea was rejected by governor Terry McAuliffe, and his lawyer filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court. He was executed on January 18, 2017, at Greensville Correctional Center at 9:42 PM EST. Earl Bramblett, who killed the Hodges family in Vinton in August 1994, was executed there on April 9, 2003.
An annual event, Run Ruby, has been held to raise money in the name of Ruby Harvey for a preschool scholarship fund at Ruby, The Second Presbyterian Childcare Center in downtown Richmond. The first took place on Saturday, November 4, 2006; the second on Saturday, 17 November 2007; the third is Sunday, November 9, 2008, and the fourth is November 8, 2009. In June 2006, William Fox's Elementary School in Richmond, where Stella Harvey went to school, dedicated his new Children's Garden to the memory of Stella Harvey. In January 2007, a Richmond newspaper called the Harvey Family as Richmonders of the Year 2006. The American alternative country group Drive-By Truckers dedicated the song "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife" from their 2008 album, Brighter Than Creation's Dark , to the Harvey family. Band member Patterson Hood said he wrote the song in response to the death of Bryan Harvey and his family.
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See also
- Death sentence in Virginia
- List of executed executors in the United States by 2017 - Gray executed on Wednesday, January 18, 2017.
- List of people executed in Virginia
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References
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External links
- Bryan and Kathryn Harvey Foundation
- Gray v. Commonwealth (Ricky Javon GRAY, a/k/a Ricky Jovan Gray v. COMMONWEALTH from Virginia The Supreme Court of Virginia Decided: June 08, 2007).
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