Fay of Randy Gay's 3rd victim rejoic over ath sentence | KATV

Contents:

• RANDY GAY ARKANSAS DEATH ROW
• RANDY GAY, TWICE CONVICTED MURRER, BEGS THIRD MURR TRIAL
• FAY OF RANDY GAY'S 3RD VICTIM REJOIC OVER ATH SENTENCE
• RANDY GAY
• GAY V. STATE (MAJORY)
• RANDY JACKSON OPENS UP ABOUT GAY CONTTANT ON 'AMERIN IDOL'
• RANDY GAY - WIKIPEDIA
• RANDY GAY SENTENCED TO ATH

RANDY GAY ARKANSAS DEATH ROW

A man twice nvicted of murr -- and twice released on early parole -- is acced of slayg a 49-year-old woman and leavg her body the Gay, 51, appeared urt Monday to face first-gree murr charg for the ath of Connie Snow, found ceased the Ouacha Natnal Fort May 2011, THV 11 reports. Gay, nvicted 1978 of murrg his father--law and aga 1991 for the ath of his own father, had been ee om prison for over a .

Acrdg to FOX 16: Acrdg to the wns the affidav, Gay and a woman had driven up to the wood area around 6:29pm on Tuday, May 10th, [2011]. The wns say they [were] workg on loggg equipment at the time when Gay stopped his tck near them. They say a woman got out of the tck and began argug wh Gay.

Gay then took a “bolt actn long gun” out of his toolbox and went to the back of his tck and ntued argug wh the woman. That is when wns say Gay fired his weapon and the woman fell to the ground.

RANDY GAY, TWICE CONVICTED MURRER, BEGS THIRD MURR TRIAL

Acrdg to a May 2011 report om THV 11, Gay served ls than two years for killg his father--law.

FAY OF RANDY GAY'S 3RD VICTIM REJOIC OVER ATH SENTENCE

Fay of Randy Gay's 3rd victim rejoic over ath sentence | KATV. Randy William Gay, 56, was nvicted Tuday of pal murr the May 10, 2011, ath of Connie Ann Snow, 49, after the ne-woman, three-man jury had liberated for about 30 mut. Wright nied a last-mute motn by Gay's attorney, Mark Fraiser, to set the remendatn asi favor of a sentence of life prison whout parole.

RANDY GAY

After Wright formally sentenced Gay -- who showed no reactn when the verdict was read -- Gay said, "Take re, judge, " and Wright replied, "You, too. Gay had two prev nvictns for send-gree murr: one the 1978 shootg ath of his father--law, Jam Kelly, and another the 1991 shootg ath of his own father, Glen Harold Gay.

Even though Gay's sentence sets off an tomatic appeals procs that uld take many years, Lansll said, "We've waed a long time to get to where we're at today. Prosecutg Attorney Terri Harris thanked the jurors, who sat through seven days of "graphic ttimony" and had to nsir more than 70 migatg circumstanc prented by Gay's attorneys, along wh the three aggravatg circumstanc prented by the prosecutn -- his two prr murr nvictns and a felony terroristic threateng nvictn 2008.

In her closg remarks to the jury, Harris went back over Wednday's ttimony about Kelly, "a father, grandfather and mician who died a vlent ath at the age of 41" at the hands of Gay. She also noted the fense prented ttimony about the abive nature of Glen Gay toward his son.

GAY V. STATE (MAJORY)

"The disncertg part of the se was the attempt to mimize that murr and Randy Gay's reasong behd why he killed his own father. "[Glen Gay] got beaten up urt and was not here to fend himself, " she said.

In his closg, Fraiser said there was evince prented to support every one of the migatg circumstanc volved the s, pecially ncerng Gay's relatnship wh his father. He noted ttimony that Gay's mother had tried to abort him and then abandoned Gay and his sisters at a young age, before their father grew abive to them.

"I n't nceive what that mt have done to a young md, " he said, notg that Gay's father was a big fluence on him, which led to them beg "too much alike. Fraiser noted that Gay was always a mol prisoner durg his prev prison terms and had qualified for parole each time. "This dit that [Gay] functns bt a ntrolled environment where he is not allowed to be around alhol bee alhol is the thread that go through this whole se.

RANDY JACKSON OPENS UP ABOUT GAY CONTTANT ON 'AMERIN IDOL'

He noted before the jury's liberatn that Gay "will never leave the Department of Correctn alive. In her rebuttal, Harris noted that "a lot of kids have been treated worse than [Gay] growg up.

RANDY GAY - WIKIPEDIA

She said prison was "a substute parent" for Gay, and if he had obeyed all the l growg up like he did while prison "he wouldn't be stg here today. She noted prison would not be a punishment for Gay bee "that's his home.

Harris said Gay "ed the vlent aths of three people for no particular reason.

RANDY GAY SENTENCED TO ATH

Dcriptn: Gay do not challenge the sufficiency of the evince. Jam ttified that he paid Gay �a few hundred. That day, Gay arrived.

Jam ttified that Gay exed the. tck and orred Snow out of the tck; Snow did not ply, and Gay went back to his. to ex the tck; Gay shot Snow the right si of her face.

Jam ttified that Gay load Snow�s.