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An all-too-familiar tragedy.


The details of this kind of slaying are by now depressingly familiar--but nonetheless shocking. This time the murder victim is 24-year-old Jamie Ray Tolbert Raymond (Ray) Lee Tolbert (born September 10 1958 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets in the 1st round (18th overall) of the 1981 NBA Draft. . According to George County, Ala., law enforcement officials, Tolbert was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point  from a Biloxi, Miss., gay bar early New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. , beaten, strangled stran·gle  
v. stran·gled, stran·gling, stran·gles

v.tr.
1.
a. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.

b.
, and then left for dead. Two men, 19-year-old Brent David Kabat and 22-year-old Jeremy Shawn Bentley, were arrested January 23 driving Tolbert's car in California. Police had tracked the men as they went on a cross-country spending spree using Tolbert's credit card. Later one suspect led deputies to Tolbert's decomposing body, which was found near Grand Bay, Ala. Both men face capital murder charges.
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
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Date:Feb 29, 2000
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