Left: Gerald Fox booking photo from 2022 (Spokane County Online Sex Offender Registry). Right: Alyssa Bray appears in court in Spokane County, Washington, on April 17, 2024, alongside a lawyer to plead not guilty to the alleged hit-and-run murder of Fox on April 9 (YouTube screengrab NBC affiliate KREM).
A woman is facing murder and theft charges in Washington after police say she killed an accused pedophile, running him down with his own truck and causing him to sail, partially clothed, through a fence and into a tree.
Alyssa Bray, 27, has pleaded not guilty in the death of Gerald Fox, 70. Specifically, she has pleaded not guilty to three charges including felony first-degree murder, hit-and-run death and theft of a motor vehicle, according to a review of a police affidavit filed April 16 by police in Spokane County, Washington.
Police said following an interview with Bray, the woman said Fox picked her up in his blue Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck on the night of April 9 as she was walking along the side of a highway near Airway Heights.
She said it was then that he offered $40 to “come get a taste of that,” an affidavit of facts states.
Fox, police said, then drove Bray around for approximately 30 minutes before pulling up on Sunset Frontage Road and exiting the vehicle to “initiate sexual contact with Bray.”
Bray allegedly told police that she locked the truck and in the time it took the 70-year-old man to walk away from the car, she had hopped into the driver’s seat. That’s when she is accused of running him over.
“I didn’t have to run him over, he was only trying to help me, but I seen that he wanted more of me and it gave me a gross feeling and I’m running around in my underwear,” the woman allegedly told police. “I didn’t have to kill him. I didn’t have to do that.”
According to the affidavit, Bray said there was “no physical contact between him and herself” while they were in the car together and before she ran him over, Fox was not running toward her nor away from her.
“No, I just drove him off the road,” she said.
Bray has pleaded not guilty.
Several witnesses in the area called in to report erratic driving the night Fox was killed and after one officer arrived, he found Fox’s body, prompting officers to start investigating.
The vehicle wasn’t found right away but Bray was found driving the truck and arrested for a DUI by police in nearby Lincoln County.
Judge Jeffrey Smith set Bray’s bond at $1 million, according to a review of online court records in Spokane County. It is unclear when she will appear in court next.
As for Fox, he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in July 2022, according to a review of the Spokane County sex offender registry. The 6-foot, 247-pound white man was charged with two counts of possession of depictions of minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct at the time.
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