Ricky Morris Kills His Parents, Ain’t Sorry
February 5, 2008 by impqueen
Fountain, FL – On Sunday night, a Bay County 911 dispatcher got an unusual phone call. On the line was Ricky Allen Morris, 25. “Hey dog, I killed my mom and dad,” Morris said. “MatterMatter reviews
of fact, I’ll be waiting by the gate. I ain’t got no guns or nothing.”
The dispatcher then asked Morris for clarification.
“They’re dead buddy,” Morris said. “They just got shot, you all come by and pick me up.”
The dispatcher kept Ricky Morris on the phone for almost ten minutes while they waited for deputies to arrive at the home. Morris was on probation for a firearms charge and had been ordered to live with his parents as a condition of his probation – a condition his parents had petitioned the court to grant. Morris had also accused his parents of raping his child, a charge which Child Protective Services had said was unfounded the FridayFriday reviews before the shooting.
According to police reports and initial autopsy results, Raymond Morris, 51, was shot twice in the face and Deborah Morris, 47, was shot once in the head with a 30-30 rifle. He did not explain why there were available firearms in the home where he was living by court order. In the 911 call, Morris said his parents “were crying” when he shot them.
“If my brother don’t come home everything’s fine, but if my brother comes home I’ve got one little bullet,” he said. Ricky’s brother, Raymond Morris Junior, 26, was not at the home when the shootings occurred.
Ricky Morris’s parents had told CPS investigators that Ricky had a traumatic brain injury, that he was schizophrenic, and that they had “had him institutionalized” in the past. Ricky Morris told investigators that his parents were trying to dicredit him to cover their abuse of his child.
According to Bay County court records, Morris was arrested several times. In 2005 he was charged with assault, battery and resisting an officer with violence. He initially was found incompetent to proceed, but in early 2006, a psychiatric evaluation cleared him, and he served a year in jail.
“They deserved it in the name of God, they deserved it,” Morris said of his parents. He assured the dispatcher that he wouldn’t hurt deputies or resist when they arrived. Then Ricky Morris lay on the ground as deputies came up the drive to arrest him.
“I’ll tell you what, God bless you. You pray about this, OK,” Morris told the dispatcher.
11:23 am on February 5th, 2008
I’m on it already
11:46 am on February 5th, 2008
I dunno if this guy is really a wingnut, or if he really believes his parents abused his kid. Because if they really did hurt his child and beat the CPS investigation, I can kinda see why he’d blow them away and go to jail happily.
12:20 pm on February 5th, 2008
well-his parents won’t be asking him to stay with them anymore-eh
12:28 pm on February 5th, 2008
I had a friend who was murdered by his schizophrenic son. Everyone knew it was likely to happen, but the police could do nothing until …. We have gone too far in denying long-term treatment to mentally ill people. I bet his parents were crying when he shot them.
12:44 pm on February 5th, 2008
The Child Protection Team conducted interviews Monday afternoon, leading to Sheriff Frank McKeithen’s announcement that Ricky Morris’s excuse of child abuse as the reason for the slayings is not true.
Guess it was just in his head…sad all the way around.
12:51 pm on February 5th, 2008
Look! He has the step-stair eyes of male perpdom!
It’s true. The men have step-stair eyes and the women all have the “why be MEAN to me” look. I wonder if we could use this info to pick out perps before they perp on someone.
1:28 pm on February 5th, 2008
A lot of strange things happen in this world, oh knows if he is telling the truth or it is all in his head. I bet we will never know, if his parents did hurt his child than they had it coming, if they didn’t and knew he was one beer short of a 6 pack they should have kicked him out of their house and let him go back to jail.
1:35 pm on February 5th, 2008
So he’s known to carry weapons and believes I raped his child, I got a guest wing he can use. What could it hurt?
2:08 pm on February 5th, 2008
lol… Wtf were they thinking?
2:51 pm on February 5th, 2008
Seriously, that’s tantamount to suicide. They shoulda kicked his crazy ass to the curb- at some point you gotta stop trying to save that fuckup of an offspring and start saving yourself.
Unless they *were* keeping him around for the young booty.
2:57 pm on February 5th, 2008
It’s hard when someone you love is mentally ill. They have days they appear normal even weeks or months. You let it slip from your mind cause they appear fine and you have lived with their condition forever. I’m sure they loved their son and believed in the parts of him they new were good. It’s to bad he was so whacked, he obviously had people that loved him. Now he has no one and I’m sure his brother wont be as forgiving as his parents. I await the day that mental illness is more understood and treatment is more effective.
6:24 pm on February 5th, 2008
He’s broken. He’s murdered someone. We can’t fix him. Get rid of him.
Sorry. He even threatened to kill his brother. No where does it say he suspected his brother of abusing his child.
9:21 pm on February 5th, 2008
Does anyone know where Ricky Morris’s child is? What about his child’s mom? Sounds like Morris was accusing his parents of abusing his kid while he was in jail – did the kid live with them?
2:03 am on February 20th, 2008
I AM RICKY’S EX WIFE…THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN. WHO MAY I ADD LIVE WITH ME. MY CHILDREN WERE NEVER ABUSED BY THEIR GRAND FATHER. RICKY HAS A MENTAL DISORDER. IN HIS HEAD HE THOUGHT HE WAS PROTECTING HIS CHILDREN. I AM BY NO MEANS DEFENDING WHAT HE DID AT ALL. HE TOOK AWAY MY BABIES “NANA AND PAPA” AND HE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD TO THEM NOW. MY KIDS HAVE NO DADDY. THEY ARE 7 AND 5. WHAT AWAY TO GROW UP. I DID NOT TELL THEM THEIR DAD DID THIS. I WILL ONE DAY…WHEN I FEEL THEY ARE READY.
4:20 am on February 20th, 2008
Karen,
Thank you for posting. I’m so sorry for your children’s loss, and yours.
It’s a sad thing all the way around. I’m really glad you have your kids.
And honestly, i’m really glad your kids weren’t abused. It kind of sounds like Ricky really is mentally ill, and was doing what he thought was needed to protect his kids.
Has he been violent before?
11:21 pm on February 20th, 2008
I am Ricky’s ex-mother in law. What he did was wrong and yes, he should be punished. He has been mentally ill for some time now….hearing voices… hallucinations….his mom and dad loved him and they were trying to help him by keeping him out of prison. That is where tough love comes along….if any of my children were sick as he is…..I, as hard as it would be, would have them put in a mental home…or should I say…let them put them in a mental home. As much as you know your sick child loves you….when it comes to voices in their head for instance …if that voice is telling them to kill you…they will do it no matter what as Ricky did… I know they loved him…but I don’t understand why they didn’t let the judge lock him back up in our state mental hospital..as he was for a year about 2 years ago. They had gotten rid of their hunting rifles thinking they were safe…but again…someone like Ricky…they will find what they need to do the job. Was he violent before? Yes….when his illness really started showing up big time…he showed violent tendencies…but NEVER to his children. He loved his children…and that night when he killed his mom and dad…he really thought he was protecting his children. His children were checked out and they have never been touched. But for some reason…..the voices he heard….told him his parents had been messing with them. So he thought he was protecting them. There needs to be a law….how can I explain this…..a law that when a parent has a mentally ill child like Ricky…the parents can’t beg and plead with the judge to let them take them home and take care of them…..the judge has to strictly go by what the childs doctor says and if the doctor says the child needs to be locked up…. forever in a mental hospital..then that is what the judge orders. A parents love for their children sometimes can interfere with whats right or wrong…….and sadly… thats what happened to Debbie and Raymond.
11:38 pm on February 20th, 2008
Karen and Sweet,
I’m very sorry for the loss of your children’s father,grandparents, and son in law. Debbie and Raymond sound like they were wonderful people who did the very best they could against an illness people still don’t understand after years of research.
I’ve said it 100 times, that all parents have blind spots when it comes to their children, and this is a very terrifying example of that.
I hope when things settle down you can form a stable until for the kids, they will need it. I think its great that you are protecting them until they can deal with it, I’m not sure they or anyone else will ever understand it.
So many people would scream about him in anger at what has happened, and not hide it. You are an amazing mother to do what you’re doing.
1:31 am on February 21st, 2008
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT IS REALLY HARD. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN PREPARE FOR. THIS STUFF ISN’T SUPPOSSEDTO HAPPEN. SOMETIMES I FEEL SO LOST LIKE I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. BUT SOME HOW I FIND IT IN ME TO BE STRONG, FOR MY KIDS. EVEN MY MOM TELLS ME I AM STRONGER THAN I THINK. I HOPE NO BODY EVER HAS TO GO THROUGH ANYTHING LIKE THIS. AND WHAT MAKES IT SO DIFFICULT IS KNOWING THAT IN THE END, MY KIDS ARE THE ONES BEING PUNISHED FOR SOMETHING THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT……..
2:31 am on February 21st, 2008
Your mom is right, you don’t know what you are capable of until you just do it. You are taking care of business and that’s what matters.
9:24 am on February 21st, 2008
I too thank you ladies for joining our discussion and extend my deepest sympathies and prayers for you and the young ones in dealing with the continuing aftermath.
10:00 am on February 21st, 2008
Karen & Sweetthang,
I think those are some lucky kids to have a great mother and grandmother who care for them and who are able to be sensible and kind about their father’s illness, while not excusing his actions. You two are doing a great job in a very difficult time, and that’s something we just don’t see very often here at DD. So kudos to you, and I wish you all the good things you deserve. Sounds like you haven’t had enough good things lately.
You might be surprised how young a child can handle knowing the truth. It’s really a lot better to tell them before someone at school does, later. If you’re worried, ask a social worker or therapist to help you tell them when it’s time, but you don’t want to have to explain to a first-grader why Tommy said their daddy’s a murderer, because then the child gets angry at you for not telling them the truth sooner. It’s hard either way and whatever you choose to do, I know will be what you feel is best for your kids. My thoughts are with you.
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