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1/18/2017

Killer of Family of Bryan Harvey (House of Freaks Lead Singer) Put to Death

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:49 pm



I recently wrote a post titled This Is The Greatest Thing I Have Seen on The Internet in Ages. You might remember it. It was about George Wendt (Norm from Cheers) and his fanatical devotion to a great little band I once loved, and saw live twice, called House of Freaks. The post featured Wendt doing a karaoke version of one of the band’s great songs. If you missed that post, go read it and smile. The rest of this post is pretty dark.

In that post, I briefly alluded to the horrible murder of the band’s lead singer, Bryan Harvey, and his entire family, including two young daughters, by an evil degenerate son of a bitch. In a comment I noted that I had marked my calendar, as the murderer was slated to die in January.

Mark my calendar I did — and I bring the good news that the scumbag is dead.

Ricky Javon Gray was executed by injection Wednesday night for the slaying of two young Richmond sisters on New Year’s Day 2006.

Gray, 39, was pronounced dead at 9:42 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center. Asked if he had any final words, Gray said, “Nope,” according to a prison spokesperson.

Gray was sentenced to die for the Jan. 1, 2006, slayings of Ruby Harvey, 4, and Stella Harvey, 9. He and accomplice Ray Dandridge, 39, also killed their parents, Bryan Harvey, 49, and Kathryn Harvey, 39, in their Woodland Heights home.

A few days later, Gray and Dandridge killed Ashley Baskerville, 21; Baskerville’s mother, Mary Tucker, 47; and stepfather, Percyell Tucker, 55, in their South Richmond home. Dandridge, Gray’s nephew, was sentenced to life for those killings.

The Harveys were tied up, their throats cut and beaten with a hammer. Their house was set on fire by the killers when they fled and the victims were initially discovered by firefighters.

I’m not a religious man, but I hope Ricky Gray is burning in hellfire tonight. May he suffer for all eternity.

13 Responses to “Killer of Family of Bryan Harvey (House of Freaks Lead Singer) Put to Death”

  1. We need the death penalty for people like this.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  2. I learned from the Wikipedia article about the case that Ashley Baskerville had been an accomplice in a prior robbery, and Gray killed her and her parents to keep them from telling police. What a sick individual. It’s good to know justice was served.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Richmond_spree_murders

    Eliot (4adec5)

  3. Thanks for the update. Can’t argue with what you just said about the DP. I’m only sorry the “resolution” was so long in coming.

    elissa (85f717)

  4. And we need something other than nabmy-pamby lethal injection. There needs to be a bit of terror in it. Hanging, guillotine, or if you really care about it being instant, a gunshot to the back of the head.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  5. I always thought they should administer a lethal dose of a popular narcotic. Cocaine or heroin or something. It would be bad publicity for the drugs. It is pretty amusing when someone files a lawsuit, sometimes successful, because the mechanism of execution causes some kind of harm to the executed.

    Dustin (ba94b2)

  6. Not a fan of the death penalty since I did some research about it going on 60 years ago for a term papar. But once in a while somebody comes along who just needs to be put to death. “Kill me, Kill me” just oozes out of every pore. Glad this one is gone.

    J Cass (da8047)

  7. Not entirely off-topic … the difficulty states have had in getting drugs for executions — drugs used every day in hospitals for surgeries — just because the pharmaceutical companies object to their use for executions, shows the deathlock Big Pharma has on this country, enforced by its bought and paid-for Congresscritters and taxpayer-paid bully boys in the FDA and DEA.

    nk (dbc370)

  8. 4, you could go to the Norks on this one – they’ve been known to fire anti-aircraft rockets onto the condemned.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  9. nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2017 @ 7:20 am

    the deathlock Big Pharma has on this country,

    or the deathlock the European Union has on Big Pharma.

    Sammy Finkelman (8b8667)

  10. Is there an EU rule that if a pharmaceutical company allows its drugs to be used for executions, it cannot do business in the EU? If there is, so what? Where do the Chinese get their drugs for their 20,000 or so lethal injections per year?

    nk (dbc370)

  11. Yeah, nk, those European pharma companies refuse to sell the proper lethal injection drugs. Then they force the states to carry out execution with alternatives which capital punishment opponents use as examples of cruel and unusual punishment because the killers snore.

    The states should turn away from lethal injection and favor more simple methods.

    Dejectedhead (d53fbb)

  12. I understand my churche’s insistnce on respect for life rom conception until natural death, but hsve to disagree in some instances. We all have a right to our personal fortune, but can forfeit some of that in the form of fees if w commit an act, th punishmnt of which is a fee (see “parking tickts), likewise we have right to personal freedom, lso forfeit able if we re found guilty of a act for which the punishment id imprisonment. No one seems to question these. I posit that our right to life is also forfeitable given the propercircumstances, such as the grievous taking of another’s life (see Ted Bundy)

    neocon_1 (232cc9)

  13. I saw today yet another reason to be glad Obama will soon be gone (as if more is needed). His last batch of commutations included two death row inmates.

    Soronel Haetir (86a46e)


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