Micah Brown was sentenced to death by the State of Texas for the murder of Stella Michelle “Doc” Ray
According to court documents Micah Brown would shoot and kill Stella Michelle “Doc” Ray in front of their four children
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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.