Left: Gerald Fox's 2022 booking photo (Spokane County Online Sex Offender Registry). Right: Alyssa Bray in court in Spokane County, Washington, on April 17, 2024, with a lawyer, pleading not guilty to the alleged hit-and-run murder of Fox on April 9 (YouTube screengrab NBC affiliate KREM).
A woman is facing charges of murder and theft in murder in connection to the killing of an accused Washington by running him down with his own truck and causing him to crash into a tree after going through a fence. pedophileAlyssa Bray, 27, has pleaded not guilty to the death of Gerald Fox, 70. She is facing three charges including first-degree murder, hit-and-run death, and theft of a motor vehicle, according to a police affidavit filed April 16 by police in Spokane County, Washington.
After talking with Bray, police said she claimed that 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 he then offered her $40 for sexual contact, according to an affidavit of facts.
Police said Fox drove Bray around for about 30 minutes before stopping on Sunset Frontage Road and getting out of the vehicle to “initiate sexual contact with Bray.”
Bray reportedly told police that she locked the truck and when the 70-year-old man walked away from the car, she got into the driver’s seat. It was at that point that she allegedly ran him over.
The woman allegedly told police, “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. I didn’t have to kill him. I didn’t have to do that.”
According to the affidavit, Bray stated that 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 or away from her.
“No, I just drove him off the road,” she said.
Bray has pleaded not guilty.
Several witnesses in the area reported erratic driving on the night Fox was killed. 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 was arrested for a DUI by police in nearby Lincoln County.
Judge Jeffrey Smith set Bray’s bond at $1 million, according to 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 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. 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.. 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.