Bryan and Kathryn Harvey and their two daughters, from left, Ruby,4 and Stella,9
were found on New Year’s Day in their burning Richmond home with their throats slit.




Summary of Offense:

Born on March 9, 1977 and sentenced to death in the City of Richmond on October 23, 2006.

On January 1, 2006, four-year-old Ruby Harvey died from stab wounds to her back, one of which punctured her lung, while her nine-year-old sister Stella died from smoke inhalation and blunt-force trauma to the head; in addition, five others were murdered by Gray and an accomplice, including Ruby and Stella's parents, Bryan, 49, and Kathryn, 39.

Firefighters called to West 31st Street that morning found the house filled with smoke and the bodies of Kathryn and Ruby in the basement.

Police were called and Stella’s body was found under a futon in the basement with her hands behind her back and tape on her mouth. Bryan was found on the basement floor with electrical cord wrapped around his hands and feet and melted tape around his face.

Bryan had been cut eight times in his neck and under his chin, his mouth was gagged and taped and his skull was struck six times with hammer blows that killed him. Kathryn was cut in her neck, chest and back and also killed by hammer blows in the head.

Ruby’s throat was cut to her trachea; she was stabbed in the back and her head was fractured and cut, causing brain tissue to exude from her skull. Stella’s neck was cut six times and her head bludgeoned by a hammer.

Gray and Ray Dandridge, later sentenced to life, decided to rob the Harvey’s house and forced the parents and Ruby into the basement. When Stella arrived from a friend’s house, she, too, was brought to the basement and bound.

Gray took a knife and, starting with Kathryn, cut everyone’s throats. When he saw the family members were still moving, he took a claw hammer and began beating them in the head. When they stopped moving, Gray set a fire and he and Dandridge fled the house.

On January 6, police found the bodies of Ashley Baskerville, 21, the getaway driver in the Harvey murders; her mother, Mary Baskerville Tucker, 47; and her husband Percyell Tucker, 55, in their home on East Broad Rock Road in South Richmond. Gray and Dandridge had suffocated them. The next day, Gray and Dandridge were arrested by a SWAT team in Philadelphia.

He later admitted he also killed his wife, Treva Gray, in 2005, in Washington, Pennsylvania.