FOREST PARK — A family feud late Thursday night left one brother dead and another charged with murder.

        Matthew Gray, Jr., 46, of Dublin, a suburb of Columbus, is charged with murder in the shooting death of his brother, Daniel Lee Gray, 55, of the 11000 block of Hamlet Road, said Capt. Don Simpson, Forest Park Police assistant chief.

        “They argued over a family matter and it escalated into the shooting death of Daniel Lee Gray,” Capt. Simpson said.

        He said police were called to Daniel Lee Gray's residence about 10:27 p.m. to investigate a report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found Daniel Lee Gray dead with several gunshot wounds.

        Capt. Simpson said Matthew Gray later surrendered to Cincinnati Police at District 4 in Avon dale.

        This is the first homicide in a year for Forest Park, Hamilton County's third-largest city, about 10 miles north of Cincinnati.

Mr. Gray will be arraigned at 9 a.m. today in Room A of the Hamilton County Municipal Court.

        A sister, Wanda Gray-Shaw of Avondale, said Matthew was upset after his brother told him a crane he (Matthew) had parked in a garage near their father's house in Avondale had been stolen.

        She said Matthew Gray does construction work and had left the crane in Cincinnati when he moved to Dublin. She said he accused Daniel Lee Gray of being involved with the theft.

        Mrs. Gray-Shaw said Daniel Gray was in charge of their father's estate. The 83-year-old father, Matthew Gray Sr., is con fined to a nursing home in Clifton.

        “My brother was a wonderful man and everybody liked him. I know he had nothing to do with the theft,” Mrs. Gray-Shaw said. “He was the patriarch of the family and took charge at family gatherings.” She said her brother was a foreman at Procter & Gamble and was nearing retirement after working there 28 years.

        Neighbors Eugene and Anna Mae Sellers referred to Daniel Lee Gray as the man who lit up the street during Christmas time.

        “He would have the most beautiful decorations on his house during Christmas,” Mrs. Sellers said. “He was a good man and a good neighbor. He didn't deserve something like this. We have lived on this street for 38 years and this is the biggest shock ever.”

        Mr. Sellers said he and Daniel Lee Gray talked practically every day for the last 28 years.

        “Any kind of tool you would want, he usually had it at his house,” Mr. Sellers said. “I just helped him to trim his trees a few weeks ago.”

        Three children survive Daniel Lee Gray: Rayshaun Gray, 21, a student at the University of Cincinnati: Hosea, 29, a theology student in Washington, D.C., and a daughter, Monica Gray-Paris, 23, of Forest Park.
       The Cincinnati Enquirer/GLENN HARTONG Crime scene tape marks off the Hamlet Road residence where Daniel Lee Gray was shot to death Friday.

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