I was putting people out of their misery. Kathryn and Stella were rebound by Gray in the basement shortly afterward. Dandridge pleaded guilty to the Tucker-Baskerville slayings and is serving a life sentence. After the funeral, Treva's mother threw Gray out. She and her husband began barricading her house at night. Timothy Earl Ragas and Joanna Ragas died by their own hand, authorities said. Stella, 9, had stayed the night with a friend. [4] In August 2006, a jury found Gray guilty on five capital murder charges after four days of trial and 30 minutes of deliberation. And the violence wasnt over: within days of the tragedy another family was found slain in a different part of town further evidence of a binge of assault and murder so brutal and unfocused it would haunt the city for years to come. Or was it all a dream? The motive for the massacre remained elusive: the Harveys had been robbed, but of very little a laptop, some cash, Bryans wedding ring. The home in Richmond where Bryan and Kathryn Harvey and their young daughters Ruby and Stella lived in Richmond and were murdered on New Year's day 2006. 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Lilly Ann Pauley came home on New Year's Day to the apartment she shared with her daughter, LaToya, in Chesterfield County. Percyell worked as a forklift driver and Mary was employed at a dry cleaning establishment. Harvey killed for the first time on May 30, 1970, two weeks into his employment. Harvey said that for the most part, his killings were out of mercy. [15] Gray and Dandridge testified that Baskerville had posed as a victim and allowed herself to be bound as a part of the plan to rob her mother and stepfather, but "things just went wrong"[16] and Gray "got tired of the girl, so he decided to kill her and take her parents' car". On the same day, Dandridge was charged with three counts of capital murder in the Tucker-Baskerville killings; the third count was later amended to include Dandridge's role in the Harvey killings. I dont think this has much to do with ego: rather, I suspect, there are some incidents (usually intimate in scale, because larger ones are harder to relate to) so terrible its simply difficult to live knowing that they happened. Dandridge surrendered and Gray was found hiding behind a water heater. In June 2006, the William Fox Elementary School in Richmond, where Stella Harvey attended school, dedicated its new Children's Garden to the memory of Stella Harvey. On the morning of January 1, 2006, they had been cruising neighborhoods in a van, looking for a house to rob, when they spotted the door Bryan Harvey had left ajar. "They kept getting up and they was scaring me," Gray said in an affidavit. Just totally random. Raised in the Kings Grant section of the city, Kathy had an older sister and a half-brother, Steven Culp, who became a Hollywood actor. He gave patients medications and saw to both their medical and personal needs. Family owned Funeral Home with Long history of helping families from all over the Northwest. The simple truth was that Dandridge and Gray might have picked any house that morning. She is an American hairstylist, fitness instructor and entrepreneur. She had married Gray, a 28-year-old former convict, approximately six months before, and lived with her husband in a house owned by her family; Dandridge, his nephew, had moved in with the couple following his release from prison on October 26, 2005, after serving more than 10 years for armed robbery. Everybody cried and cried. "I was shaking, I was scared.". Donald Harvey, a health care worker called the Angel of Death by the news media after he killed dozens of hospital patients under his care in the 1970s and '80s, died on Thursday . The family had been held hostage in the basement muzzled, restrained, and unable to comfort one another while their home was ransacked. [3], On December 31, 2005, 26-year-old Ryan Carey was attacked by two men he later identified as Gray and Dandridge in front of his parents' home in the 5100 block of North 25th Street in Arlington. (Courtesy photo). Children placed candles along the curb in front of the red brick house. Harvey attended the King's School . For the Harveys. The three rolled into town on a cloudy, chilly New Year's Day, looking for a home to rob. I first heard Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife in 2008, just months after moving away from Richmond, where I lived from 1999 to 2007. The GBI released the medical examiner's preliminary cause of death Friday morning. According to Treva's parents, the Grays fought bitterly, and they saw claw marks on Ricky's forearm the day Treva's body was found. [26] On January 19, 2016, Gray's execution was set for March 16, 2016,[27] but was stayed again to allow Gray to appeal to the US Supreme Court. "I was a nervous wreck," Pauley said. Gray tied up the rest of the family, put clear packing tape over their mouths and began ransacking the place. Terry McAuliffe to spare the inmates life, saying his actions were the result of drug use aimed at numbing years of sexual abuse by his older brother when he was a child. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. An annual event, Ruby's Run, has been organized to raise money in Ruby Harvey's name for a scholarship fund at Ruby's preschool, the Second Presbyterian Child Care Center in downtown Richmond. My future wife and I visited the shop on our first date, taking pictures of each other in front of the fun house mirrors outside the entrance. The men had stuffed it with stolen goods and made for Dandridge's father's place in Philadelphia. She'd been killed along with her parents. Dandridge left Philadelphia on Christmas Day to join Gray. That moment (and photo) haunted me. Established in 1928. Could Kathy have run, saving herself and Stella? Fred Harvey. Arm yourself to the teeth every time you go out to wash the car or shovel the sidewalk? So, like Patterson Hood, I imagine a happier ending to assuage my grief and restore my faith in life and my fellows. (Courtesy images). He became obsessed with this feeling of power over the helpless as he controlled all the routines that would keep them alive. It became clear that Powell didnt die from his motorcycle accident but from poisoning. Autopsies revealed that all three family members died of suffocation and had been stabbed. There was no such comfort for those grieving the Harveys: everything about their killers seemed haphazard, almost arbitrary. Shortly before Banks was shot, a Harvey police officer heard gunfire and noticed a person with a gun at the club at 17038 S Halsted St., Nickson said. Or was it all a dream? Gray was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister Ruby, and to life in prison for the slayings of their parents, Bryan and Kathryn Harvey. Who can live like that?". Blue went to preschool with Stella Harvey. Birth State: New York. Autopsies performed on a Harvey family of four who died in a murder-suicide Thursday revealed that the parents, Timothy Earl and Joanna Ragas, each committed suicide while . Her husband, Percyell Tucker, was a forklift driver whose hobby was baking pies. The first took place on Saturday, November 4, 2006; the second was on Saturday, November 17, 2007; the third was Sunday, November 9, 2008, and the fourth was November 8, 2009. [9], On the morning of January 7, 2006, Gray and Dandridge were arrested in Philadelphia, where Dandridge's father Ronald Wilson lived. Meanwhile on earth his friends came over He thanks you for reading his content. William Harvey, (born April 1, 1578, Folkestone, Kent, Englanddied June 3, 1657, London), English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea. He was drunk when apprehended and he bragged to the police about killing 15 people at Marymount Hospital, but no one believed him. The case is still under investigation and ballistic evidence was being reviewed, according to the Sheriff's Office. He also says hes not at all religious. But he is a father whose first child happened to be born shortly before the Harveys (whom he knew) were killed. The 2006 Richmond spree murders took place during a seven-day period in January 2006 in and around Richmond, Virginia, United States; seven people, four members of the Harvey family 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). The men grabbed a laptop, assorted odds and ends and a plate of cookies. When were just laying around doing nothing but basking in each others joy and love. She made a circular motion with her finger, like a gun to the side of her head the sign typically used to indicate someone is crazy. In the Harvey investigation, Timothy Earl Ragas, 43, Joanna Ragas, 45, and their sons, Timothy Bruce Ragas, 13, and Eric Thornblom, 20, died of gunshot wounds to the head, according to the Coroner's Office. The death Thursday of Donald Harvey has thrown a spotlight on the dozens of poisoning murders to which the former hospital orderly admitted to, almost all in the manner of what he portrayed . The 2006 Richmond spree murders took place during a seven-day period in January 2006 in and around Richmond, Virginia, United States; seven people, four members of the Harvey family and three members of the Baskerville-Tucker family, were killed. When a doctor performed a routine autopsy on Powells stomach, he caught a whiff of something strange: Cyanide. He pled guilty a few months later for the three other deaths outside of the hospital from which he received three life sentences plus three terms of seven to 25 years. All rights reserved. Authorities had enough evidence to convict Harvey for killing 37 people. They didnt know the Harveys and had no vendetta against them they were simply obstacles in the way of what they wanted. The four members of the Harvey family, who were murdered New Year's Day 2006, are buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. 1. He put these chemicals into foods, fruit juices and pies. [10], Both Gray and Dandridge were prosecuted in the City of Richmond Circuit Court in Virginia. Even the one exception told me that, while he would personally skip the song because it was just too much he had a child who was friends with the Harveys oldest child he thought it should go on the album. Baskerville had a key to the house. Approximately a week after the discovery of their daughter's body, Treva's parents evicted Dandridge from their property; Dandridge then moved in with his father in West Philadelphia. First published on January 18, 2017 / 11:04 PM. In reality, he was an undiscerning killer who used a lethal cocktail of arsenic and cyanide on the helpless. Shortly afterward, the family moved to Booneville, Ky., a tiny town in Appalachia. He said he did so because he felt sorry for Powell and his family. There was a problem saving your notification. "It could have been any one of us. YouTubeHarvey stands before a board listing his victims. Richmond Police Sergeant Coretta Monts monitors the police line in front of the former home of the slain Harvey family at 31st and Chesterfield streets while Chloe Bell hugs her son, Blue Bell, 8, during a vigil in 2006 in honor of the Harveys. The 35th president was shot and killed while riding in a open-top convertible in Dallas, Texas. "It kills me to think about their last hours. Their daughters Stella Ann (November 3, 1996 January 1, 2006) and Ruby May (July 4, 2001 January 1, 2006) were 9 and 4, respectively. She was last seen alive by her mother when they went for a walk around 3 p.m. Monday in Midlothian . There, Harvey claimed, he killed at least 15 patients, reported UPI. Grays lawyers had earlier asked Virginia Gov. Very angry. He gained hall of fame recognition from OCU Athletics, the Oklahoma Soccer Association and the NAIA. To this day, when my mind wanders, I sometimes find myself outsmarting fate to prevent tragedies. [5] On New Year's Eve, they attacked 26-year-old Ryan Carey as he walked from his car to his parents' house. Dandridge's girlfriend Ashley Baskerville assisted the pair as an accomplice during their murder and robbery spree until she became one of their victims. It's a wonderful place.". How and why that loss of humanity occurs, what crushes the spirit and warps the souls of once full human beings, is a vast question thats beyond the scope of this essay (as are critical but complex issues of economics and race). I didnt know the Harveys personally but had artist, writer, and musician friends who did. All three members of the Baskerville-Tucker family were found dead, gagged and bound with tape in their ransacked house. I was very concerned about putting the song out, as I really didnt want it to hurt anyone or cause anyone who knew and loved the Harveys to be hurt by it. . Neither was insane by any common or clinical standard, just profoundly coldhearted. The Harvey family murders were all over the news. On December 9, 1966, Ruby was admitted to the Parkland Hospital in Dallas, as he suffered from pneumonia. He died on January 3, 1967, due to a pulmonary embolism, secondary to lung cancer, at Parkland Hospital. The police found items at the Chesterfield home linked to the Harvey case, and stormed the house on East Broad Rock Road where Ashley lived with her mother, 46-year-old Mary Baskerville-Tucker, and her stepfather, 55-year-old Percyell Tucker. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto hinted there was evidence that Timothy Earl and Joana Ragas decided together to commit the murder-suicides because of financial pressures on the family. Dolls and flowers by the storefront To make her appear innocent, they hatched a plan to tie her up along with her parents. Gray pleaded not guilty. Bryan and Kathryn usually came to Drive-By Truckers shows and at least once brought the girls to an all ages show we played one afternoon. Stella and Ruby started to panic. The killings occurred sometime afterwards and were abrupt and savage, clumsily committed with the Harveys own kitchen knife and claw hammer. The way I look at it, you controllin something, you got the power to do it.. Their daughters, Stella and Ruby, were 9 and 4. "There's no guns or swords or anything like that there. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Fa. At first, firefighters thought the people on the floor in the basement were fire victims. Perkinson said she noticed that Kathy looked pale and stressed. Gary A. Harki, 757-446-2370, gary.harki@pilotonline.com, Joanne Kimberlin, 757-446-2338, joanne.kimberlin@pilotonline.com. When I saw their pictures [on the news] my heart nearly stopped. The crime so disturbed him that he sought peace and resolution in both his craft (songwriting) and the iconography of his cultural heritage (Christianity): I just couldnt make any sense or find any kind of closure to the horror of it all the image of them frolicking leisurely in heaven was about as comforting an image as I could find.. On May 30, 1970, Evans was thrashing about, covered in his own filth. 0:00. At a packed memorial at the local Byrd movie theater, musician friends numb with grief played a tearful version of George Harrisons All Things Must Pass. It was a dreadful end to the holiday season and a chilling start to the New Year. Left Baskerville in the van and crept up. By the end of 1988, Gray, now 11 years old, had been drinking for two years and was using PCP. Inside, he committed crimes so terrible that he's scheduled to be executed this week. They got to know their neighbors. His manner of death was unknown, according to a report released Monday from the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Archives TM Family history . Embracing the honest sentiment of Daughters allows us to savor its bittersweet evocation of a man who realizes that paradise was his all along not in any kingdom in the sky, but in those tiny moments of comfort and togetherness shared with his loved ones, before he left (or was forced to leave) this sweet old world. Hood told me the songs placement was predetermined: I put great care into the pacing and sequencing of our albums [and] from the moment of its inception, it was always the first song for Brighter Than Creations Dark. As a prelude to what follows, it resembles a prayer offered before a storm. I knew Bryans music from his old bands, and was a frequent shopper at World of Mirth where I once shyly asked Kathryn (who was lithe and lovely beautiful in fact) if I could paint a mural (she turned me down). A photograph from a vacation in Nag's Head, N.C. of (left to right) Ruby, Stella, Kathy and Bryan Harvey. Waitressed. When officers went to Mary Baskerville-Tucker's house, they found three people dead. When Hood and bassist Shonna Tucker sing shocked and horrified it jolts and nearly transports us where we, the singer, and Hood least want to go: to where a father watches helplessly as his wife and children die, and all the weeping in the world wont bring them back or wipe from our minds how they were killed. In November, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight life terms plus 20 years. He allegedly laughed when it was presented. Harvey said the killings gave him a sense of satisfaction and almost happiness. Dandridge was convicted of murdering Ashley Baskerville, Mary Baskerville-Tucker and Percyell Tucker. Kathryn Grabinsky, later to become Kathryn Harvey, as the1984 homecoming queen her senior year at Cox High School. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. 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