Conrad Murray
| Conrad Murray | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Conrad Robert Murray February 19, 1953 Grenada |
| Occupation | Cardiologist |
| Criminal charge | involuntary manslaughter |
| Criminal penalty | Four-year sentence, but served only two years |
| Criminal status | Released on October 28, 2013 |
| Children | Che Giovanni Murray |
Conrad Robert Murray (born February 19, 1953) is a cardiologist originally from St. Andrews, Grenada. He was the personal physician of Michael Jackson until Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, in which he was implicated. He was subsequently charged with involuntary manslaughter, convicted, and sentenced to four years in jail, of which he served two.
Murray was raised by his maternal grandparents who were farmers in Grenada until he joined his mother, Milta, in Trinidad and Tobago when he was 7 years old. He grew up poor in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. He did not meet his father, Rawle Andrew, also a physician, until he was 25. Andrew, who died in 2001 was devoted to providing medical services to the poor. Murray finished high school and worked as a volunteer elementary school teacher in Trinidad for a while. After teaching, he worked to save up for college tuition as a customs clerk and insurance underwriter.
In 1973, Murray moved to Houston, Texas, where his father worked, to attend Texas Southern University, and graduated Magna cum laude with a degree in pre-med and biological sciences. Murray continued his education at Meharry Medical College, in Nashville, Tennessee, the same school his father attended, and the first school in the south for African Americans. He began his internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and completed it at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. He then completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Arizona.
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