Rita Gray Biography and Wiki
Rita Gray is facing federal charges after she allegedly shot and seriously wounded 53-year-old Columbus Police Officer Russ Weiner, while he was executing a narcotics-related search warrant at Gray’s residence on Chelford Drive, according to a press release from U.S. attorney David M. Devillers. Weiner had surgery following the shooting, according to Columbus Police Chief Thomas Quinlan, and is expected to be okay.
According to an affidavit sworn-out this morning in support of the federal criminal complaint, Rita Gray, told her son Eric Gray in May 2019 the following:
If you break any door in I’ma be standing in that hallwayI don’t care nothing about you hollerin’ police because a robber could be police.“I’ll be standing right there in that hallway ready to blast. I’ll stand right around my corner there and blast however many shots I got,” Rita Gray added.
According to the court document, agents and officers knocked on the door of the residence and announced their presence. After the knock and announce went unanswered, agents and officers made entry into the residence.
Upon entering the residence, law enforcement executing the warrant took on gunfire from Rita Gray, who was present in vicinity of an interior hallway.
Officials say Rita Gray was apprehended a short time later with two semiautomatic Glock manufactured pistols nearby.
“In January 2020, state and federal law enforcement began an investigation into suspected drug trafficking, including irregular financial activity that is suspected of being related to money laundering and narcotics trafficking, involving Eric Gray, among others. That investigation remains ongoing,” Devillers said in a press release.
Rita Gray is charged with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute meth and oxycodone, possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.
If convicted on all count, she faces at least 20 years and up to life in prison.
She is scheduled to appear via videoconferencing Friday at 1:30pm for an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Chelsey Vascura.
Rita Gray is facing federal charges after she allegedly shot and seriously wounded 53-year-old Columbus Police Officer Russ Weiner, while he was executing a narcotics-related search warrant at Gray’s residence on Chelford Drive, according to a press release from U.S. attorney David M. Devillers. Weiner had surgery following the shooting, according to Columbus Police Chief Thomas Quinlan, and is expected to be okay.
According to an affidavit sworn-out this morning in support of the federal criminal complaint, Rita Gray, told her son Eric Gray in May 2019 the following:
If you break any door in I’ma be standing in that hallwayI don’t care nothing about you hollerin’ police because a robber could be police.“I’ll be standing right there in that hallway ready to blast. I’ll stand right around my corner there and blast however many shots I got,” Rita Gray added.
According to the court document, agents and officers knocked on the door of the residence and announced their presence. After the knock and announce went unanswered, agents and officers made entry into the residence.
Upon entering the residence, law enforcement executing the warrant took on gunfire from Rita Gray, who was present in vicinity of an interior hallway.
Officials say Rita Gray was apprehended a short time later with two semiautomatic Glock manufactured pistols nearby.
“In January 2020, state and federal law enforcement began an investigation into suspected drug trafficking, including irregular financial activity that is suspected of being related to money laundering and narcotics trafficking, involving Eric Gray, among others. That investigation remains ongoing,” Devillers said in a press release.
Rita Gray is charged with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute meth and oxycodone, possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.
If convicted on all count, she faces at least 20 years and up to life in prison.
She is scheduled to appear via videoconferencing Friday at 1:30pm for an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Chelsey Vascura.
Rita Gray is facing federal charges after she allegedly shot and seriously wounded 53-year-old Columbus Police Officer Russ Weiner, while he was executing a narcotics-related search warrant at Gray’s residence on Chelford Drive, according to a press release from U.S. attorney David M. Devillers. Weiner had surgery following the shooting, according to Columbus Police Chief Thomas Quinlan, and is expected to be okay.
According to an affidavit sworn-out this morning in support of the federal criminal complaint, Rita Gray, told her son Eric Gray in May 2019 the following:
If you break any door in I’ma be standing in that hallwayI don’t care nothing about you hollerin’ police because a robber could be police.“I’ll be standing right there in that hallway ready to blast. I’ll stand right around my corner there and blast however many shots I got,” Rita Gray added.
According to the court document, agents and officers knocked on the door of the residence and announced their presence. After the knock and announce went unanswered, agents and officers made entry into the residence.
Upon entering the residence, law enforcement executing the warrant took on gunfire from Rita Gray, who was present in vicinity of an interior hallway.
Officials say Rita Gray was apprehended a short time later with two semiautomatic Glock manufactured pistols nearby.
“In January 2020, state and federal law enforcement began an investigation into suspected drug trafficking, including irregular financial activity that is suspected of being related to money laundering and narcotics trafficking, involving Eric Gray, among others. That investigation remains ongoing,” Devillers said in a press release.
Rita Gray is charged with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute meth and oxycodone, possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.
If convicted on all count, she faces at least 20 years and up to life in prison.
She is scheduled to appear via videoconferencing Friday at 1:30pm for an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Chelsey Vascura.