JARRATT, Va. — A man convicted of killing a family of four, slashing their throats and setting their home ablaze after they left their front door open while preparing for a New Year’s Day party in 2006, was executed Wednesday.

Ricky Gray was pronounced dead at 9:42 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. The 39-year-old inmate was put to death with the sedative midazolam, followed by rocuronium bromide to halt breathing, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.

Gray showed no emotion as he was walked into the execution chamber wearing blue jeans and handcuffs. Asked if he had any final words, Gray responded, “Nope.”

Gray was condemned to death in 2006 for the murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister Ruby, and sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of their parents, Bryan and Kathryn Harvey.(nydailynews)…[+]

The NYPD team set up to handle calls involving the mentally ill is fatally flawed because the department has no way to direct cops with the special training to incidents involving the emotionally disturbed, a new report released Thursday found.

Since mid-2015, the department has trained 4,700 officers as part of an expanding Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) specially designed to de-escalate encounters with the mentally ill. Eighteen months later, emergency dispatchers have no way of knowing where the CIT officers are when they get a call about someone in what the department calls “mental crisis,” according to the report released by NYPD Inspector General Philip Eure.(nydailynews)…[+]

Mark Zuckerberg is suing to force about 300 Hawaiians — both living and dead — into selling their waterfront properties so that his own beach home can be a little more private. The Facebook CEO — whose 700-acre Kauai estate, purchased in 2014, includes about a dozen plots still tied to local Hawaiian families — filed eight lawsuits in December to officially acquire those areas, the Honolulu Star Advertiser reported.

The legal move, called “quiet title and partition,” would prompt locals to sell land that has been in their families for generations. They’d forfeit their rights to traverse on Zuckerberg’s estate, and the billionaire would likely compensate them financially in return.(nydailynews)…[+]