Plea Deal Spares Death Penalty in Triple Slaying
From Times Wire Reports
A man accused of suffocating a family of three entered into a last-minute plea agreement in Richmond that will spare him the death penalty.
Ray Joseph Dandridge, 29, whose trial was underway, admitted to the Jan. 6 killings of Percyell Tucker, 55; his wife, Mary Baskerville-Tucker, 47; and her daughter, Ashley Baskerville, 21. The victims’ faces had been covered in duct tape and the parents’ throats cut.
Dandridge was sentenced to life in prison.
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