Childhood
Ray was born in Torreon, Mexico in December of 1965. He stayed there only one month and then immigrated to the United States with his family. Ray grew up as an only child in Downey, CA with his parents Reinaldo and Alicia Perez. He grew up loving sports, especially baseball, and playing outside with his friends. Ray knew from an early age that he wanted to be a police officer. This may have been evident to others as well, as he always made his other friends be the bad guys when playing cops and robbers so he could be the police man. He and his parents traveled as often as possible and made yearly trips to Mexico to visit family. Ray attended 12 years of Catholic school and graduated from St. John Bosco in 1983. From there, he attended California State University, Long Beach where he completed a bachelors degree in Criminal Justice.