Mississippi man wakes up to find three people he most trusted dead
Content warning: This article contains graphic depictions of murder. Reader discretion is adivsed.
People to know in this story
- Raymond Laws, grandson of Mary and Rickie Ray; nephew of Kelley Cincurak; discovers the bodies of his grandparents and aunt Aug. 4.
- Mary Ray, mother of Kelley Cincurak; grandmother of Raymond Laws; wife of Rickie Ray; found dead in her home Aug. 4, the apparent victim of a gunshot.
- Kelley Cincurak, daughter of Mary Ray; aunt of Raymond Laws; found dead in her mother and stepfather’s home Aug. 4, the apparent victim of a gunshot.
- Deborah Laws, daughter of Mary Ray; mother of Raymond Laws; sister of Kelley Cincurak.
- Rickie Ray, husband of Mary Ray; stepfather of Kelly Cincurak; stepgrandfather of Raymond Laws; found dead in his home Aug. 4; believed to the perpetrator of a double-homicide.
- Mark Dixon, longtime friend of Kelley Cincurak; friend of Raymond Laws; coworker of both Cincurak and Laws.
Raymond Lindsy Laws subconsciously registered the first gunshot fired the morning of Aug. 4, but it wasn’t enough to fully rouse him.
He’d spent the night working at the Southland Casino in West Memphis where he was recently hired as a dealer. Following his 40-minute commute back to DeSoto County, Laws needed sleep.
When the second shot echoed from the quiet Hernando neighborhood on Mason Drive, Laws began to understand what was happening, and by the third shot, he knew with certainty.
Someone was firing a .22 handgun, a sound he was familiar with because that was a weapon his grandfather owned.
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Rob Moore
Rob Moore covers North Mississippi for The Daily Memphian. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from The University of Memphis.
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