Gray v. State

The appellant was separately indicted for the murder of his father, Thomas Isiah Gray, and his aunt, Marie Johnson. The cases were consolidated for trial in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County; the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter in each case; and five year concurrent sentences were imposed.

The appellant was sixteen years old at the time the fatal shootings occurred as an aftermath of a fight involving the appellant’s mother and father as well as the mother’s sister who was allegedly having an extra-marital affair with the father. The evidence indicates that the father, who…