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Micah Brown Case
Multiple witnesses testified regarding a number of instances of violence involving Brown, his ex-wife Stella Ray (“Ray”), and another of Ray’s ex-husbands (Tracy Williams) in the days preceding Ray’s murder. Those include instances in which Brown allegedly gave Ray and one of their young children each a black eye and another in which Williams allegedly choked Brown in front of Brown’s and Ray’s children.
It is undisputed that Brown intentionally murdered his ex-wife Stella Ray (henceforth “Ray”) in July 2011 by fatally shooting her with a sawed-off shotgun as she sat in her vehicle talking to a 911 dispatcher on her telephone. Ray reported to the dispatcher that Brown was pursuing her, that she had previously filed a complaint against Brown, that she feared he might ram his vehicle into hers, and that she had informed Brown that she was then speaking with the police. A recording of the 911 call was played for the jury at trial.
A police officer responded to Ray’s call. As he approached Ray’s and Brown’s vehicles from behind with his lights flashing (the two vehicles were stopped side by side), his dash camera recorded the fatal shooting. Immediately after firing the fatal shot, Brown drove away from the scene while law enforcement officers attempted to render assistance to the unresponsive Ray.
Ray’s fatal shooting took place after Ray brought her vehicle to a stop and with the couple’s two small children in the backseat of Ray’s vehicle. Brown testified that he deliberately aimed his shotgun at Ray’s head and pulled the trigger. Immediately before the fatal shooting, Brown pursued Ray’s vehicle in his own vehicle for some distance, flashed his lights, drove next to her, and yelled at her. Brown admitted these facts during his testimony at the guilt-innocence phase of his trial.
The jury also saw a televised interview that Brown gave to a reporter following his arrest in which Brown admitted that he murdered Ray because he wanted her dead. During the interview, Brown also admitted that he believed Ray was talking to the police on her phone as Brown pursued her.
At the punishment phase of trial, the jury heard testimony establishing that, following the fatal shooting, Brown left voice mail messages for Tracy Williams in which Brown threatened to kill Williams. The jury also read a post-arrest letter that Brown wrote to another jail inmate named “Casper” in which Brown recounted that he chased Ray down and made her pull over, that he saw her talking on the phone and knew she was speaking with police, and that. when he saw the red and blue lights behind him, he pulled out his shotgun and “blew her head off.” Near the conclusion of his letter, Brown confessed that he felt no remorse for killing Ray and that he would also kill Ray’s other ex-husband (Tracy Williams) if he had the chance. Brown’s letter instructed Casper to dispose of the letter after reading it.
https://casetext.com/case/brown-v-dir-tdcj-cid-5
Micah Brown Death
Micah Crofford Brown, the man convicted of killing his ex-wife in front of their children more than a decade ago, was found dead in his cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, according to prison officials.
Brown, 46, was on death row for the 2011 murder of Dr. Stella Michelle “Doc” Ray. He was sentenced to die by lethal injection in 2013 after a Hunt County jury found him guilty of capital murder.
Ray, a popular teacher at Caddo Mills High School, was shot on the night of July 20, 2011. She had called Greenville police from her car, telling them she was afraid Brown was trying to run her off the road.
Early the next morning, Brown was found, armed and reportedly asking officers to shoot him. He was taken into custody without incident.
During the 2013 trial, prosecutors argued that Brown killed Ray during a dispute over custody. A jury sentenced him to death after just one week of deliberation on punishment.
Ray, 37, was known throughout the community as a dedicated educator.
A Greenville High School alumna, she had recently completed her doctorate in literature and was preparing to teach at Wiley College in Marshall.
Officials have not released a cause of death but say the incident is under investigation.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/articles/convicted-hunt-county-killer-found-014800763.html
