Marv Gaye's Murr: How the Motown Legend Was Killed by His Father - A&E Te Crime

Contents:

• MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER
• AKIRA ROSS' PARTNER, FATHER SAY SHE WAS KILLED BY STRANGER CEDAR PARK BEE SHE WAS GAY
• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER

But Marv Gaye died a btal ath at the hands of his own father - shot at pot blank range the bedroom of their Los Angel home.

13Marv Gaye was shot ad by his own father 1984Cred: Redferns. It also marked the high pot of 25-year Marv Gaye’s reer - which went hand hand wh womanisg, dg addictn and creasg paranoia, and end wh tragedy a day before his 45th birthday.

AKIRA ROSS' PARTNER, FATHER SAY SHE WAS KILLED BY STRANGER CEDAR PARK BEE SHE WAS GAY

13Marv Gay Sr was arrted for the shootgCred: AP:Associated Prs.

At the same time he add an ‘e’ to his origal surname of Gay - to shut down any speculatn about his sexualy and to distance himself om his abive dad.

As Gaye’s fame grew, so did his pennce on dgs and his creasgly erratic behavur. Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father. The moment Marv Gaye's dad is sentenced after shootg him ad.

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

At the peak of his reer, Marv Gaye was the Prce of Motown—the soulful voice behd hs as wi-rangg as “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and “Mercy Mercy Me (The Elogy). ” Like his label-mate Stevie Wonr, Gaye both epomized and outgrew the crowd-pleasg sound that ma Motown famo. That life me to a tragic end on April 1, 1984, when Marv Gaye was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th the physil e of Marv Gaye’s ath was straightforward—”Gunshot wound to cht perforatg heart, lung and liver, ” acrdg to the Los Angel County Coroner—the events that led to were much more tangled.

Marv Gay, Sr., (the “e” was add by his son for his stage name) was a preacher the Hebrew Pentestal Church and a proponent of a strict moral he enforced btally wh his four children.

MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER

Clearly harbored unrolved feelgs toward his abive feelgs spilled out for the fal time the Los Angel home of Marv Gay, Sr., and his wife Alberta. Only one year removed om his first Grammy w and om a triumphant return to the pop charts wh “Sexual Healg, ” Marv Gaye was horrible physil, psychologil and fancial an argument between father and son lated to a physil fight on the morng of April 1, 1984, Alberta Gay was tryg to lm her son his bedroom when Marv Sr.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?

Marv Gaye’s brother, Frankie, who lived next door, and who held the legendary sger durg his fal mut, later wrote his memoir that Marv Gaye’s fal, disturbg statement was, “I got what I wanted…. But both her father and her partner said Tuday was bee she was gay. He said wns told him the man arrted for his dghter's killg, Bradley Stanford, had yelled gay slurs at her at the gas statn before the shootg.

"She gets out of the r, and he starts llg her gay slurs for no reason.

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Stanford yelled gay slurs at Ross before Ross walked to the gas statn nvenience store behd her, Tanya iend stayed the r while Ross and Tanya entered the store, Tanya said the iend texted her that Stanford was wavg around a gun outsi the store.

Here's what we ' mother had died a r wreck Manor about 2½ years ago, so Ross also wanted to start a bs to help children wh the loss of fay members, Hill never exprsed any fears about her safety as a gay woman, her father said. On April 1, 1984, mician Marv Gaye was fatally shot by his own father. Although Marv Gaye Sr.