Most women fantasize about weddings and how when they become the bride, it's going to be the best day of their lives. Unfortunately, for this bride, she didn't know that it will be the last day of her life.
On May 25, 2014, Tiffany Davenport-Ray of Topeka, Kansas, 42, got married to Melvin Ray. As a newly-married couple, they were off to their post-reception gathering; however, before even reaching the venue, a bullet came from an SUV and fatally hit Davenport-Ray on the head (via The Topeka Capital-Journal).
According to The Topeka Capital-Journal, Ray immediately fired back with his wife's pistol in the car but the damage has already been done. Minutes after becoming a newlywed, he's now a widower who didn't even get to enjoy a day as Davenport-Ray's husband.
Two years after, the court has finally announced a decision on the second suspect of the tragic murder of Davenport-Ray. The Shawnee County District Court Jury has declared Thomas Earl Brown Jr.,39, guilty of premeditated first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, solicitation to commit first-degree murder, aggravated assault of Ray, criminal discharge of a firearm at a motor vehicle, criminal possession of a weapon within ten years of being convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling.
Brown is scheduled to be sentenced on September 30. He is the second suspect to be convicted guilty for Davenport-Ray's murder case.
As per another The Topeka Capital-Journal article, the first suspect for Davenport-Ray's murder, Awnterio Dwan Lowery, 32, was the driver of the SUV where the gunshot came from. The SUV, Lowery was driving, and the Dodge Charger, where the newlyweds were had bullet holes when a gunshot battle commenced after the last breath of Davenport-Ray.
The two vehicles crashed but the Dodge Charger was able to leave the scene right away, leaving the SUV with extensive damage. Davenport-Ray was then transferred to a private vehicle that took her to Stormont-Vail HealthCare in an attempt to retrieve her life but hours after, she was proclaimed dead.
In 2015, KSN reported that Lowery has received a guilty verdict and was sentenced for life imprisonment with an additional fifty years in prison. There was a third man in the SUV, Jermel Robbins, 26, who was already killed three weeks after Davenport-Ray's death (via The Topeka Capital-Journal).
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