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After leaving Los Angeles, Ray drove toward Atlanta, making several stops before going back to Birmingham, where he had stayed briefly after his escape from a Missouri prison that caged him for seven years for robbing a grocery store. While in Birmingham, Ray purchased the rifle he used to kill Marin Luther King, Jr.