"She Never Really Had a Life..."
By Steve Huff
Ashley Baskerville "never really had a life."
That's the way her aunt, JoAnne Barnes put it in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
But her death, well that's another matter.
On January 6, 2006, Baskerville, became a key character in a gruesome drama when she was found, along with her mother Mary and step-father Percyell Tucker, bound and beaten to death in the Baskerville residence at 3408 E. Broad Rock Rd. in Richmond. The residence was just a little over a mile from the scene of another family murder just 5 days before, that of the Harveys, at 812 W. 31st St.
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| Ashley Baskerville |
The Harveys, Bryan, 49, Kathryn, 39, their daughters Stella, age 9, and Ruby, 4, were found in the basement of their burning home on January 1. They'd been beaten, and according to several reports, their throats slit.
Except for the color of the family's skin — the Harveys were Caucasian, Mr. Tucker and the Baskerville women were African-American — the murders of the Tuckers were very similar to the massacre of the Harveys.
At first, Richmond Police discounted a connection. This is perhaps because statistically, violent crime is often intra-racial; black-on-black, white-on-white. But the following day, the 7th of January, Ricky Jovan Gray and his nephew, Ray Joseph Dandridge, both 28, were arrested for both sets of murders in West Philadelphia, PA.
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| Ricky Jovan Gray (left) and Ray Joseph Dandridge |
The morning of January 1, Ashley Baskerville apparently was with Dandridge and Gray when they went to the Harvey home. While they were inside, she is alleged to have sat as a lookout.
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