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Authorities say a man and a woman were kidnapped early Saturday morning and found just a few hours later handcuffed and each shot in the head. Their families have pulled together a $15,000 reward for anyone who can tell them who did it.

The family says Jeronta Brown and his fiance, Briana Brooks, took their 8-month-old baby and 14-year-old niece out for a meal. When they got back to their Decatur home, several men jumped them.

The children were able to get away, but Brown and Brooks were put into the back of a van.

Brown's aunt, Myesha Brown, said the men tried to get inside the house before leaving.

"The guys walked up, started ringing on the doorbell, beating on the door, yelling, 'FBI, FBI,'" Brown said.

Instead of opening the door, Brown said they called 911. Police did show up, but Brown said they didn't take the kidnapping seriously.
"We were unable to get the kidnappers what they wanted due to Dekalb County thinking that this was a joke, this was something Jeronta set up," she said.

Brown said a family member got a call shortly after the kidnappers took off, demanding $150,000.
Jerota Brown was dead. Brooks, seven months pregnant with the couple's second child, was alive. Doctors were able to deliver the baby girl by C-section. Brown says the infant is doing fine, but Brooks' condition remains uncertain.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...uple-handcuffed-shot-woman-survives/14946887/

Not a lot of info yet . Why would the police assume this was a joke . I thought the FBI was called in for any kidnapping , but maybe that is just on tv shows .
 
The family says Jeronta Brown and his fiance, Briana Brooks, took their 8-month-old baby and 14-year-old niece out for a meal. When they got back to their Decatur home, several men jumped them.
The children were able to get away, but Brown and Brooks were put into the back of a van.

That 8-month-old baby has skills, - or a very devoted, on-the-ball cousin!
 
Bumbling motherfuckers.
Had they taken the family seriously the first time there would be no MURDER to be investigating. Sad tragic and maybe preventable.
 
Shitheads!!! Targeting a family returning home with a teen and a baby? And the woman would have been obviously pregnant! :( So lucky the kids got away though.
Also, an 8 mo old baby and another 7mos along? Busy busy!
 
Kidnapping is a federal crime if they are taken over state lines.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Kidnapping_Act

Following the historic Lindbergh kidnapping(the abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's toddler son), the United States Congress adopted a federal kidnapping statute—known as the Federal Kidnapping Act 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) (popularly known as the Lindbergh Law, or Little Lindbergh Law)—which was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim.

The theory behind the Lindbergh Law was that federal law enforcement intervention was necessary because state and local law enforcement officers could not effectively pursue kidnappers across state lines. Since federal law enforcement, such as FBI agents, have national law enforcement authority, Congress believed they could do a much more effective job of dealing with kidnappings than could state, county, and local authorities.[1]


I thought I'd look a little more into it so here it is, it's wikipedia so take it as you find it. LOL
 
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Kidnapped woman gives birth, fiance killed after gunmen demand money from family
[...]
pregnant Decatur woman is being kept alive by a ventilator at Grady Memorial Hospital after she and her fiancé, Jeronta Brown,
[...]
The couple was found later in northwest Atlanta. Brown was pronounced dead at the scene and the female was barely breathing.
[...]
(kidnappers) came here and they knocked on the door," said Kawana Brown, Jeronta Brown's mother.

Kawana Brown said two men with masks knocked on the door of their Decatur home and identified themselves as the FBI.

Jeronta Brown, his fiancé, his sister and the couple's child arrived at the same time as the kidnappers.

"No, I don't know who they (kidnappers) were. I don't know anything about them,"
[...]
Police said the kidnappers put the couple into handcuffs and took them away. Jaronta Brown's sister was able to run away with the couple's young daughter.
[...]
kidnappers later demanded the family pay $150,000 in ransom money. The amount was later lowered to $10,000.

Later that day, police found the couple in northwest Atlanta. Jeronta Brown had been killed, and his fiancé was severely injured.

The fiancé was taken to a hospital where she gave birth to a baby prematurely.
http://www.cbs46.com/story/26422435...er-gunmen-demand-money-from-family?hpt=ju_bn1
 
kidnappers later demanded the family pay $150,000 in ransom money. The amount was later lowered to $10,000.

That's a huge difference in ransom money. I have a funny feeling about this one...
 
Georgia mom dies after weekend kidnapping that killed fiancé as police investigate possible related attack
Briana Brooks, 21, was taken off life support Thursday night at an Atlanta hospital after recovered with her fiancé, Jeronta Brown, 24, lying alongside a road early Saturday, WXIA reported. The couple, expecting their second child, were each found with a gunshot wound to the head.
[...]
pregnant mother who was critically wounded in a weekend kidnapping that killed her fiancé has died after giving birth to a premature baby girl.

Briana Brooks, 21, was taken off life support Thursday night at an Atlanta hospital after recovered with her fiancé, Jeronta Brown, 24, lying alongside a road early Saturday
[...]
The couple, expecting their second child, was each found with a gunshot wound to the head
[...]
"They were handcuffed, both of them," Orenthious Martin, who came across the victims around 4:30 a.m. tol
"Not tied. There were handcuffs on them."
[...]
police believe the Saturday morning attack outside a family home wasn't random and the couple likely knew their abductors.
[...]
since their terrifying abduction, Atlanta police say they are investigating a second, similar kidnapping of a woman that occurred Thursday morning in East Atlanta.
[...]
asked if they may be related, Capt. Paul Guerrucci, commander of the Atlanta Police Department's homicide unit, said "We're considering all possibilities."
[...]
we do not think that we have a kidnapping crew just randomly going around and snatching people off the road," he said in a press conference
[...]
"We believe that the victims were targeted for one reason or another that we're not going to talk about right now, but they're not random, totally random."

In Thursday morning's kidnapping that occurred in a parking lot, the victim was recovered safe later that evening. Guerrucci declined to provide further details in that case.
[....]
Brooks and Browns' abduction, however, the attackers demanded ransoms. According to some witness recounts, they also presented themselves as law enforcement officers.

Brown's aunt, Myesha Brown, who witnessed Saturday's abduction first hand, said the men who snatched them outside her home identified themselves as FBI agents.
[...]
said the young couple was returning with their 8-month-old baby and Brown's 14-year-old sister around 12:30 a.m. when they were ambushed by at least two masked men.

"When they pulled up, they pulled up behind them so they were maybe following them," Brown's sister, who escaped by running into a neighbor's yard with the baby,
[...]
Brown also managed to escape, said Myesha, but once he realized Brooks was not with him he came back for her.

"Once he turned around and saw his fiancée laid out on the ground he just turned around and said you just might as well take me too,
[...]
Myesha, who was inside the house when this all happened, said the abductors then turned their attention to the house.
"The guys walked up, started ringing the door bell, banging on the door. 'FBI, FBI!'" she said they shouted.

Unable to get in, the men handcuffed the couple and then forced them inside of a brown van.
[...]
the vehicle left, Brown's family said they received a phone call from his cellphone. The caller demanded $150,000 for his return.

Tragically negotiations proved fruitless for their release. Roughly four hours later, their bodies were discovered approximately 17 miles away.
[...]
stepfather, Calvin Reddick, speculated that they may have been targeted because of a large settlement check his family recently received.
"I drive a nice car,"
[...]
"My wife drives a nice car. They must know we have money."
[...]
candlelight vigil for the couple Thursday night, family of the victims publicly pleaded for the killers to turn themselves in.

"Turn yourself in. That was my first grandson. I want you to turn yourself in. That was not fair," Robin Bryant, the victim's grandmother
[...]
Police are asking that anyone with information about either of the abductions to please come forward.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...-fiancee-weekend-kidnapping-article-1.1929832
 
Thinking the dude likely owed some drug moolah to some folks you don't want to be owing drug moolah to
 
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Andre Gaye (left) was arrested earlier this week and charged with kidnapping and murder. Richard August Wilson (right) was arrested in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday.
Two men arrested in kidnapping, murder of pregnant Georgia woman, boyfriend
Richard (Fathead) Augusta Wilson, 41, and Andre Gay were collared this week in the murder of Jeronta Brown, 24, and Briana Brooks, 21, who were found handcuffed and shot on the side of a northwest Atlanta road on Aug. 30.

Two men wanted in the kidnapping and execution-style murder of a Georgia man and his pregnant fiancée last month are behind bars.

Richard (Fathead) Augusta Wilson, 41, and Andre Gay were arrested this week after Jeronta Brown, 24, and Briana Brooks, 21,
[...]
Brooks, who was pregnant with her second child with Brown, died five days later after giving birth to a premature baby girl via C-section
[....]
couple had been returning from a night out when they were violently abducted by masked, armed men outside Brown's aunt's home just after midnight,
[..]
In a call made minutes later from Brown's cell phone, his family said, they were ordered to pay a $150,000 ransom.
Before they were able to negotiate a release, the young couple was found shot in the back of their heads with their hands cuffed behind their backs.
[...]
first big arrest in the brazen murder mystery came with Gay's arrest on Monday on kidnapping and murder charges.
Wilson was collared
[...]
Thursday morning while reportedly trying to sell an assault rifle at a pawn shop.
[...]
Wilson had been previously wanted for charges in an unrelated murder in Fulton County in January 2014, as well as for federal probation violations.

Gay had similarly been charged and convicted of murdering a pregnant woman and a 16-month-old child 23 years ago.
[...]
He's been out of jail for the last eight months.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...pregnant-ga-woman-boyfriend-article-1.1961613
 
And suddenly I hate people right now. Fucking animals need to not be breathing. So beyond senseless what they did and this just goes to show what's done in the dark will always come to light someway somehow.
 
So the perpetrators were both already murderers, one having killed a mother and a baby? Good job giving him a light sentence for that one, really paid off. Dipshit candyass "justice" system.
 
Wilson had been previously wanted for charges in an unrelated murder in Fulton County in January 2014, as well as for federal probation violations.Gay had similarly been charged and convicted of murdering a pregnant woman and a 16-month-old child 23 years ago.


WHAT? He murdered a pregnant woman plus a 16mo old baby that makes a total of 3 and he was out in 23 years. thats only 7 years per life. Our justice system is a fail and we need to step up and start giving the death penalty. Lets clear these mother fuckers off the face of the earth. Why should we (law abiding people) have to share air space? Why should our tax dollars be spent giving them housing and food, a rec room etc. Death penalty= its for the good of the people.
 
Gay had similarly been charged and convicted of murdering a pregnant woman and a 16-month-old child 23 years ago.
But yet he was still ou tto do it all ver again, just fucking awesome.

Hey, powers that be, think maybe this time we can put him in the express lane for the needle or shall we parole him this time too and see if the thrid time is the charm?
 
Paroled killer was likely unsupervised for months before allegedly murdering pregnant Georgia woman, fiancé: state
Andre Gay, who was convicted of killing a woman and a 17-month-old child in 1991, had been free for about seven months when police say he and another man abducted and murdered Briana Brooks, 21, and Jeronta Brown, 24, in August.
[....]
paroled killer likely hadn't been checked on for months when police say he kidnapped a young, expecting couple in Georgia and murdered them execution style, the state has admitted.


Andre Gay, who was convicted of killing a woman and a 17-month-old child in 1991, had been free for about seven months when he and another man allegedly abducted and murdered Briana Brooks, 21, and Jeronta Brown, 24, in August
[....]
The couple was returning from dinner in the early hours of Aug. 30 when they were forced into a car and then dumped on the side of an Atlanta road with their hands cuffed behind their backs and bullets in their heads.
[...]
It wasn't until a month later that Gay and Richard Wilson, 41, were collared in the sickening crime.
[....]
nearly two months later, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Fulton County District Attorney's Office are admitting mistakes were made.

Gay, at the time of his release, had been ordered to have the highest level of supervision. That reportedly meant a random, electronic home phone call to Gay's residence that relied on voice recognition technology to confirm his location.
But the system was never set up by Gay's parole supervisor.
[...]
a result, the paroled killer is believed to have never been phoned or checked on while running loose on the streets, free to allegedly take the lives of the young couple.
Topping it off, the parole officer reportedly deleted Gay's information from the system and graduated him to more lenient supervision with the help of two supervisors.
[..]
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard praised the State Board of Pardons and Paroles for admitting its mistakes.

"I am very pleased with the reaction and response of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles regarding the matter of Andre Gay and the issues related to his release from prison on a double homicide conviction from 1991,"
[...]
He added that the board's chairman, Terry Bernard, "admitted errors were indeed made on behalf of the Parole Board in this matter. I was struck by the Chairman's candor and eagerness to address the flaws in the system and work towards successful resolutions."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...rvised-months-killing-state-article-1.1990475
 
I think those responsible for this fuck, need to not only lose their job, but any pension due them. Way to drop the ball, morons.


~shadow
 
Oh come on! What the fuck is this passive voice bullshit?

"Mistakes were made"? No shit! Who made them?

"Errors were indeed made"? By whom?

Goddamn weasel wording bureaucrats.

--Al
what slays me is how hard the hysterical family tried to get the pd to do something and they were just blown off
 

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