Man sentenced to life in 2005 slaying

By Jeannie Nuss, Globe Staff

A 40-year-old man was sentenced today in Suffolk Superior Court to life in prison without parole for murdering a 65-year-old man at a Jamaica Plain senior citizen's complex in 2005.

Terry Gray was convicted of shooting Charles Wilson to death in Wilson's apartment on July 9, 2005.

Gray received an additional sentence of nine to 10 years for putting a gun to his elderly uncle’s head on June 16, 2005, and asking, “Who do you want to meet first, God or the devil?”

The jury deadlocked on a second murder charge alleging that Gray killed his own stepfather, James Gray, on or about July 12, 2005. A hearing will be held Aug. 7 to discuss Terry Gray's retrial in the case, Suffolk County prosecutors said.

District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said Wilson was "a beloved member of his community. ... We hope this sentence can bring some sense of justice to those who will never forget him."

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