Man pleads guilty after killing innocent West Knox Co. couple
An Alcoa man crashed his truck into the couple's home while chasing his girlfriend. Then, authorities said, he shot the couple to death.
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An Alcoa man crashed his truck into the couple's home while chasing his girlfriend. Then, authorities said, he shot the couple to death.
A Knox County jury convicted David Richards of multiple counts in 2019. The allegations arose in 2013 and he was indicted in 2016.
John Shafighi was charged in 1994 with sexually abusing the child in Knox County. He then fled to the Middle East.
Gray Jr. is charged only in Knox County. But his parents face prosecution in both Knox and Roane counties. In fact, District Attorney General Russell Johnson has filed notice he's ready to seek the death penalty against the elder Gray if the case goes to trial in Roane County. Authorities learned about the family's alleged crimes in May 2020 after one of the adoptive children, a boy, was found wandering on a Roane County road down from his home. Investigative interviews led to the discovery of the remains of an adoptive girl, Sophie Gray, on the Grays' property in the Ten Mile community of Ro...