{"id":5361,"date":"2018-07-27T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T04:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2018-07-27T00:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T04:18:19","slug":"batavia-friends-and-family-gather-on-liberty-street-to-remember-ray-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/batavia-friends-and-family-gather-on-liberty-street-to-remember-ray-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"BATAVIA\/Friends and family gather on Liberty street to remember Ray Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/blGvY4gw5tQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Friends and family of 47 year old Ray Morgan, who was killed after a brutal attack at his residence on Tuesday night, gathered at 111 Liberty street on Thursday night to celebrate his life.<\/p>\n<p>Many people expressed their thoughts about Morgan as a friend, a son, a brother and someone who spread love where ever he went.<\/p>\n<p>Others expressed their disgust with the violence in Batavia and how everyone needs to come together.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan&#8217;s mother Francis says she will miss him and loves her son.<br \/>\nFrancis says she was able to spend time with him 4 hours before he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least I was able to tell him I loved him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several speakers asked for people to step up and tell authorities what they know or witnessed that night to put some closure on the situation for the family.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still looking for the suspect and are asking the public to contact them at 585-345-6350 or at the confidential tipline at 585-345-6370 with any information that could help in the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family of 47 year old Ray Morgan, who was killed after a brutal attack at his residence on Tuesday night, gathered at 111 Liberty street on Thursday night to celebrate his life. Many people expressed their thoughts about Morgan as a friend, a son, a brother and someone \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/batavia-friends-and-family-gather-on-liberty-street-to-remember-ray-morgan\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[1112],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batavia","tag-vigil-ray-morgan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-1ot","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5345,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/batavia-the-family-of-the-victim-in-the-liberty-street-homicide-is-looking-for-answers\/","url_meta":{"origin":5361,"position":0},"title":"BATAVIA\/The family of the victim in the Liberty street homicide is looking for answers","author":"aka","date":"July 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Family members of Ray Morgan converged at the corner of Liberty and Central avenue on Wednesday afternoon to come together and give each other support as they attempted to collect their loved ones belongings after he was brutally attacked and killed at a boarding house for parolees late Tuesday night.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Batavia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Batavia","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/category\/gennesse-county\/batavia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ray-Morgan.jpg?fit=405%2C540&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5672,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/08\/24\/batavia-family-of-liberty-street-murder-victim-looking-for-justice\/","url_meta":{"origin":5361,"position":1},"title":"BATAVIA\/Family of Liberty street murder victim looking for justice","author":"aka","date":"August 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Submitted photo Ray Morgan) Peggy Brusie is the mother of two children, Faith Marie Slack and Rae Lee Morgan, who lost their dad, Ray Morgan, to violence after he was murdered on July 24, 2018 on Liberty street. 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