Ralph Allister Gray, 3200 Lassie Avenue

JAMAICAN GANGS WAGE WAR OVER DRUGS, AREA POLICE SAY - SIX SLAYINGS CARRIED OUT IN LAST WEEK
Washington Post - Thursday, November 19, 1987
Author: Linda Wheeler ; Keith Harriston , Washington Post Staff Writers

Six men have been shot to death in the last week in adjoining District neighborhoods and in two disparate sections of Prince George's County in what police call a deadly drug war involving Jamaican gangs that have muscled their way into lucrative Washington area markets.
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Prince George's County police are also connecting 9 mm weapons with posse activities. On Nov. 6, Ralph Allister Gray, 32, described by police as a Jamaican drug distributor, was shot and stabbed several times near his apartment at 3200 Lassie Ave ., Temple Hills. In his apartment police found two 9 mm semiautomatic handguns, a revolver and a empty case for an Uzi submachine gun.
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Lassie Avenue, 3200 block, homicide

80TH SLAYING NEARS RECORD IN PR. GEORGE'S
Washington Post - Saturday, November 7, 1987

An indentified man was shot and killed late Thursday in Temple Hills, bringing the total number of homicides in Prince George's County to 80 so far this year, county police said.

The unidentified victim, a man in his early thirties, was listed by police as a "John Doe."

Police said that residents of the 3200 block of Lassie Avenue reported hearing gunshots at 11:46 p.m., looked out their windows and saw a man lying in the street.

The police homicide division is investigating the case, but a spokesman said yesterday that there are no suspects.

A new yearly milestone for the number of homicides almost certainly will be established this year in the 487-square-mile county.

A record 86 homicides were committed in the county in 1982.

According to Cpl. Bruce Gentile, a police spokesman, a majority of the slayings in the county are committed inside the Capital Beltway in the high-density population areas

Edition: FINAL
Section: METRO
Page: g2
Index Terms: STATISTIC; NEWS MARYLAND; Prince George's County, MD ; Murder ; Crimes
Record Number: 91635
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