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View Comments When Raymond Felton Gray was sent to prison for life on a murder conviction nearly 50 years ago platform shoes were the fashion rage and Watergate scandal-plagued President Richard Nixon was still in office. On Tuesday, Gray officially became a free man following a plea deal that allowed him to plead no contest to a lesser murder offense. Gray, 69, has been incarcerated since May 1973 after he was convicted of first-degree murder for the slaying of a reputed Detroit drug dealer, Ruben Bryant, in a Detroit apartment months earlier. Gray, who was hoping for an exoneration, ha...

click to enlarge Ray Gray walks out of prison a free man after 48 years behind bars. “It’s one of the happiest days of my life,” Gray said. “I feel blessed and grateful for the people who made this happen — people of all races. Justice is often not only blind, but deaf, and you have to continue to touch it. People touched it and kept touching it, and now we’re here. … This time the system worked.”  Ray and Barbara, wh...

A Detroit man who has spent 48 years in prison for a fatal robbery has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder

Ray Gray, convicted of Detroit murder 48 years ago, to be released in deal with Wayne County By FOX 2 Staff Former police officer calls for convicted killer in Michigan to be set free Raymond Gray has spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, making him one of Michigan's longest-service inmates. But freedom could possibly be in his future, and not just because of the pandemic. DETROIT (FOX 2) - After almost 50 years behind bars, Ray Gray will walk out of prison as a free man on Tuesday after a deal was reached between the prosecutor's office and Gray's attorney. Gray entered a no contest pl...

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit man who spent 48 years in prison for a fatal robbery pleaded...