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Nolen Buchanan Teen Killer Murders Family

Nolen Buchanan was just sixteen years old when he murdered his entire family in California. According to court documents Nolen would open fire on his father, stepmother, younger half brother before setting the cabin on fire. This teen killer would be tried as an adult and after being convicted of the four murders would be sentenced to one hundred and fifty years in prison.

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Inmate Name	BUCHANAN, NOLEN KEITH
CDCR Number	BG9008
Age	20
Admission Date	07/25/2018
Current Location	Ironwood State Prison
Location Link	Directions
Parole Eligible Date (Month/Year)	10/2039

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The Benicia teen who was accused of shooting and killing his father, father’s fiancee and 8-year-old half brother and then burning their bodies was convicted of the murders in El Dorado County Superior Court Wednesday.

The jury deliberated for two hours before returning the verdict, the El Dorado County District Attorney said in a press release.

On the morning of Sept. 13, 2015, then 16-year-old Nolen Buchanan used a .22 caliber rifle to shoot his father, Adam Buchanan 38; his fiancee, Molly McAfee, 37; and their 8-year-old son, Gavin at their vacation cabin along Highway 193 in Greenwood. He then doused the bodies and cabin in gasoline and set them ablaze, burning the cabin to the ground, the district attorney’s office said.

Buchanan drove his family’s truck back to their home in Benicia and denied being at the cabin that weekend. In court, he said his father shot his stepmother and half-brother and tried to shoot him, but Buchanan said he wrestled the gun away from his father and shot him in self-defense.

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September 13, 2015 was the worst day in the lives of the Molly McAffe, and Adam and Gavin Buchanan families. They lost a son, grandson, sister, daughter, aunt, nephew, cousin, and their lives will be forever haunted by the heinous acts of another relative, Nolen Buchanan.

It was a very emotional afternoon in El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury’s court Thursday during the sentencing of the now 18-year-old responsible for shooting his father, his father’s fiancé and his 8-year-old brother and then setting their cabin on fire in Greenwood, Calif.

On June 13 a South Lake Tahoe jury found Benicia, California teen Nolen Buchanan guilty on three counts of first degree murder and three special allegations that he personally used a firearm with intent to discharge, causing death; used a firearm in a violent offense; used a firearm to cause great bodily injury.

“I don’t think any other case has affected me more than this one,” said Judge Kingsbury who has spent decades on the bench and in the district attorney’s office. “This is a case that has impacted me.”

As family members got up to read their victim’s statements to the court, Nolen Buchanan sat straight in his seat between his lawyers, dressed in a prison orange jumpsuit and a new jailhouse haircut. He stared straight ahead as his grandfather and Molly’s parents and sister got up to speak. They spoke of their lives, once filled with happiness and family, but now filled with sleepless nights, PTSD, depression, sadness, depression and despair.

In sentencing, Kingsbury described case law and California SB394 in how she arrived at her decision. Had Nolen been older when he committed the murders he would not be seeing any chance of getting out of prison in his lifetime. But, with the passage os SB394 in October, 2017, Nolen will have a chance at parole.

Kingsbury reflected on a homelife Nolen was faced with, one where his dad both verbally and physically abused him, and the emotionally abuse he lived with inside a chaotic house. She also spoke about the premeditation of the murders and subsequent fire, and the calculating method in which he used his friends to cover for him, plan for a future as taking over the family business and home as a 16-year-old, an entitled way of reacting while in the Juvenile Treatment Center in South Lake Tahoe after his arrest, lack in ability to follow rules.

The judge sentenced Nolen Buchanan to 150 years in prison for the three counts of murder and three special allegations, but, if approved, he could get out on parole in 25 years due to the Senate Bill and Supreme Court rulings for minors that commit felonies. He gets credit for 1,016 days served.

“He will have a chance to rehabilitate,” said the judge. “It’s up to him.”

“Everybody has the capacity to change,” Judge Kingsbury told Nolen. “I hope you do everything in your power to do so.”

If he ever does parole out of prison he will face hefty amounts of restitution to the victims and court, the total unknown at this time.

Buchanan can appeal her decision within the next 60 days. In the meantime he is being transferred to the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, California.

http://southtahoenow.com/story/07/12/2018/buchanan-sentenced-150-years-prison-murdering-family-could-get-parole

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Nicholas Browning Teen Killer Murders Family

Nicholas Browning was fifteen years old when he murdered his parents and two younger brother. According to court documents Nicholas Browning would fatally shoot his parents and his two younger brothers then would spend the next two nights at a friends house before telling anyone what had happened. Eventually Nicholas Browning would tell his friend who would notify the police who made the gruesome discovery. This teen killer would be sentenced to two life terms however due to the way the judge sentenced him he will be eligible for parole in twenty years

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Nicholas Browning, the Baltimore County teen charged with murdering his parents and brothers in their sleep, joked about killing his parents several times before their deaths, several students said.

“He often complained about his father, and I specifically remember him saying he would kill his family one day in a joking manner,” Browning?s Dulaney High classmate John Lockwood told The Examiner in an Internet message.

Lockwood?s statement appears to corroborate previous statements from students who rode the school bus with Nicholas Browning and said the teen recently began talking about killing his parents — but none of them took him seriously.

“He talked about how rich his father was, how he wanted some of that money,” said one middle schooler, whose father asked The Examiner not to publish her name. “He didn?t like his father because he used to always yell at him and stuff.”

Lockwood said Browning had “another side to him away from school where he would beat up his younger brothers really badly, steal from his dad?s liquor cabinet, and steal their car without a permit or license.”

He said Nicholas Browning was “a spoiled kid” who mocked minorities and people with disabilities.

“He got away with everything and thought he ran the world,” Lockwood said.

Called an “all-American family,” successful lawyer, John Browning, 45, along with his wife, Tamara, 44, and sons Gregory, 14, and Benjamin, 11, were found dead in their Cockeysville home last Saturday around 5 p.m. by Nicholas Browning as he returned home from a friend?s house, police said.

Police said Browning, an honors student close to becoming an Eagle Scout, dumped his father?s gun in nearby bushes and spent Friday night and all day Saturday with friends.

A source with knowledge of Browning actions that night said John Browning had wanted his eldest son to accompany the family to western Maryland Saturday, but Nicholas wanted to stay home and party with his friends. The night of the killings, Nicholas abruptly left a friend?s house and walked more than two miles to his parents? home, returning five hours later, the source said.

Browning then began inviting friends to a party at his house on Saturday night, before returning home and faking surprise at finding their dead bodies, several sources, including police, said.

As police worked the crime scene that Saturday night, officers were repeatedly interrupted as students, unaware of the horror inside the home, kept arriving expecting a party, law enforcement sources said.

Browning did not immediately confess to the crime, but claimed a botched robbery led to the murders, sources said. After about six hours of interrogation, he admitted to the murders after police found inconsistencies in his story, the sources said.

Browning marked his 16th birthday behind bars in the Baltimore County Detention Center Saturday, the same day about 1,300 people attended a funeral for his family at Trinity Assembly of God church in Lutherville.

In a statement released after the funereal, family members expressed support for Nicholas Browning.

“Our concern and love goes out to Nick,” they wrote. “Whatever else lies ahead, he is a member of our family and he will have our support.

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A Baltimore County judge on Friday denied Nicholas Browning’s motion to reduce the four life sentences he received for murdering his parents and two younger brothers at their Cockeysville home.

Browning, now 21, was sentenced five years ago after pleading guilty to four counts of first-degree murder. His attorneys have recently argued that his multiple life sentences were preventing him from getting mental healthtreatment at the Patuxent Institution, which works with youth offenders.

But Judge Thomas J. Bollinger Sr. said he did not believe that the sentence modification would change the circumstances of his incarceration. Browning had asked that he be able to serve all of the terms at the same time, with all but 30 years suspended.

Browning’s attorney, Joshua Treem, argued that reducing several of the murder counts “doesn’t get him out any earlier” but would make him eligible for treatment. He said Browning still could not be released without the approval of a parole board.

“Nicholas Browning committed what I don’t think words can adequately describe as an unfathomable act,” Treem said. But Treem said mental health professionals who evaluated Browning had recommended treatment, which could potentially help answer the question of why Browning killed his family members.

Browning, who appeared in court with short, cropped hair in a light blue “D.O.C.” shirt and lose-fitting jeans, spoke only briefly, thanking family members who have continued to visit him.

“Words can’t describe what I did,” he said. Browning asked the judge to reconsider the sentence “not for me but my family.”

Deputy State’s Attorney Robin Coffin said Browning’s sentence was appropriate because he showed no empathy in the killing of his family.

“It was the state’s position at the time of sentencing and the state’s position today this crime was so heinous that Nicholas Browning should never get out of jail.”

She added, “At the time of the murder, when he was speaking with detectives, the only thing he said about his parents was that they were harsh and strict.”

Browning shot and killed his father, John, his mother, Tamara, his 14-year-old brother, Gregory, and his 11-year-old brother, Benjamin. Later, Browning told police, he tossed his father’s gun into nearby woods and went to a friend’s house, where he played video games.

The family was found dead on Feb. 2, 2008

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-browning-hearing-20140117-story.html

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Jacob Brown Teen Killer Murders Elderly Couple

Jacob Brown was sixteen years old when he murdered an elderly couple in Tennessee. According to court documents Jacob Brown, who is known as Paco to friends. broke into the elderly couple home and proceeded to beat them to death with a baseball bat. Jacob Brown who would confess to the brutal murders would tell police that demons told him to kill. Regardless this teen killer would be convicted at trial and sentenced to life without parole.

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Name:	JACOB ANDREW BROWN JR
Birth Date:	05/30/1994
TDOC ID:	00500196
State ID Number (SID):	03224461

Supervision Status:	INCARCERATED	Assigned Location:	TURNEY CENTER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Combined Sentence(s) Length:	LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE	Supervision/Custody Level:	MEDIUM
Sentence Begin Date:	01/20/2011	Sentence End Date:
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A Tipton County teenager testified in court today that demons tell him to kill. The disturbing story was heard hours before Jacob “Paco” Brown was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Brown is just 17, a year older than when he was charged with killing an elderly couple. Their family offered emotional testimony during the sentencing as well.

Brown will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering an elderly couple in their Munford home. He claims he cries for his victims every night.

Ed and his wife Bea Walker were beaten to death with a baseball bat almost exactly one year ago.

A day after he was found guilty of first degree murder, Brown offered bizarre yet compelling testimony that demons speak to him.

“Demons – they tell me to kill people or kill myself,” he said in court. Brown also described an imaginary little girl named Bella who tells him not to kill people.

“She’s just a little girl,” he said. “She comes around sometimes.”

A diagnosed schizophrenic, a doctor claimed Brown may have heard voices that told him to commit the murders. He was also high on bath salts at the time.

One of the Walker’s daughters testified that Brown caused her family to forever live in fear.

We lock doors, sleep with the lights on,” said Christy Billings, the victims’ daughter. “Sometimes we don’t even sleep at night.”

Brown’s mother said he was a great kid until junior high when he started refusing to take his medication.

It only took the jury about an hour to sentence Brown.

https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/16566686/teen-may-have-heard-voices-before-murders/

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A Tipton County teen accused of killing an elderly Munford couple has apologized for his actions.

As he was led out of the Tipton County Jail late last week in handcuffs, 16-year-old Jacob Brown – known as Paco to his friends – only had one thing to say: I’m sorry.

Brown is charged with two counts of premeditated first degree murder, two counts of felony first degree murder, and aggravated burglary. He’s accused of killing Munford residents Ed and Bertha Walker with a baseball bat inside their home last month.

During a preliminary hearing last week, TBI agent Mark Reynolds testified Brown confessed to him about the killings.

“He dropped his head and his whole body language,” Reynolds said. “I told him, ‘It’s going to be okay,’ and he said, ‘It’s not going to be okay. I did this.’”

During disturbing testimony, Scott Locke, a neighbor of the Walkers, said he and Brown had conversations about their nosy neighbors. Locke said Brown suggested killing them, but he thought it was a joke.

On the stand, Locke described the day last month whet 80-year-old Ed Walker and his wife Bea were found beaten to death.

According to Lock, at approximately 2:20 p.m., Brown sent a text message that reportedly said, “You wanted your nosy neighbors dead, right?”

Later that afternoon, Locke said Brown told him, “It’s done.”

A clinical psychologist took the stand and said Jacob Brown was mentally competent to stand trial. He’s expected to be indicted by a Tipton county grand jury this week.

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Keaira Brown Teen Killer Murders Teenager

Keaira Brown was just thirteen years old when she murdered a teenager during a carjacking. According to court documents Keaira attempted to steal a vehicle at gunpoint and when the young driver did not respond fast enough he was shot and killed. Due to her young age at the time of the murder there was much debate whether or not Keaira should be tried as an adult. However due to the brutal nature of the crime it was ultimately decided to charge the thirteen year old as an adult. This teen killer would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for twenty years

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Keaira Brown was only 13 years old when she killed Scott Sappington Jr. in an attempted carjacking. She’s now 16 and going to prison for life without the possibility of parole for 20 years.

The Kansas City Star reported that Brown told the judge at her sentencing on Thursday: “I’m a kid, too.”

She added: “Now I feel like the state is taking (my life), and nobody cares but my family.”

Yep, pretty much. I certainly don’t care about you being locked up for life after you fired a bullet into Sappington’s head at close range, killing him.

https://www.cjonline.com/article/20110120/NEWS/301209749

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A girl who shot a teen to death at age 13 — the youngest killer to be prosecuted as an adult in Kansas — will be among the youngest inmates serving life.A Wyandotte County judge on Thursday sentenced Keaira Brown, also known as Keaire Brown, now 16, to life with no parole possible for 20 years.

Defense lawyers said they will appeal and raise the issue of whether Kansas law allowing adult prosecution and life sentences for children that young is unconstitutional.

Prosecutors and the family of the victim, 16-year-old victim Scott Sappington Jr., say Brown committed a heinous crime and deserves the time.

A jury convicted her last year of shooting Sappington in the head in Kansas City, Kan., on July 23, 2008, during a botched carjacking. Besides felony first-degree murder, they also convicted her of attempted aggravated robbery.

Judge Ernest Johnson imposed a 32-month sentence for the robbery charge but made it concurrent to the life sentence.

Sappington, an athlete who worked two jobs, had just dropped off his younger siblings with his grandmother when he was shot at close range.

At the hearing Thursday, an aunt read the judge a statement from Felicia Johnson, Scott’s mother.

Many lives changed for the worse when Scott died days before he turned 17, his mother wrote.

“Scott was known for keeping his classmates, family and friends laughing when they were down,” she wrote. “Scott was such a joy.”

His father, Scott Sappington Sr., told Brown in court: “You chose this path of destruction. You took a great man from us.”

They asked for the maximum sentence.

Cheryl Turner, Brown’s mother, said the justice system has shown blind hostility and revenge toward her daughter.

The girl who loved animals, roller skating and movies is now locked up with hard women who talk about drugs and tell grim war stories, her mother said.

Brown told the judge, “I’m a kid, too,” and noted that a Wyandotte County judge in 2009 chose not to prosecute another 13-year-old for murder as an adult.

“Now I feel like the state is taking (my life) and nobody cares but my family,” she said.

Vernon Lewis, her defense lawyer, argued for mercy.

“We can never stop trying to nurture and raise our young,” he said. Society won’t let children do many things because they are too immature, he said, yet in Kansas children as young as 10 can be prosecuted as adults.

Sheryl Lidtke, assistant prosecutor, noted that the judge had to impose the life sentence under the law and she asked that the other sentence be concurrent.

“Let’s not forget our victim was also a teenager with no criminal record,” she said. “He was dropping off his siblings and going to work and did nothing more that try to protect his car.”

Johnson told lawyers it would be up to an appeals court to assess the ruling of another judge that Brown be prosecuted as an adult.

Lidtke said the appeal ruling could clarify issues of Kansas law related to the prosecution of young criminals.

David Brom Teen Killer – Murdered Family With An Axe

David Brom was sixteen when he would murder his entire family with an axe in Minnesota. According to court documents police went to the Brom residence after they were notified about a rumor floating around the school that something terrible happened in the Brom home.

Police would discover the bodies of David’s father, mother, brother and sister. David and his older brother were missing from the home. Initially police thought that David Brom had been kidnapped however soon after a female school mate would tell police that David confessed to murdering his family. Apparently David Brom was involved in an argument with his father and once his father was asleep David would kill him and his mother. David Brom was heading to his sister’s bedroom when he found her and his younger brother in the hallway and murdered them both. This teen killer was sentenced to three life sentences in prison

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MNDOC Offender ID:146854

Name:David Brom

Birth Date:10/03/1971

Current Status:Incarcerated as of 10/16/1989. Currently at MCF Stillwater.

Sentence Date:10/16/1989

Anticipated Release Date:Life –

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Sunday marks a dark anniversary in the city of Rochester. David Brom brutally murdered his dad, mom, brother and sister with an ax in their home on the outskirts of Rochester 30 years ago.

Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson was a deputy at the time and first on the scene. When he reflects on his 34-year career in law enforcement, there are countless cases he can recall, but undoubtedly none compare to February 18, 1988.

“All I knew was that there was something wrong, and all I remember of the call was that David Brom had made some kind of threat to his dad,” Torgerson said.

Bernard and Paulette Brom had what looked like the American dream, a nice home on the northwest side of Rochester, four children: Joe, 19, David, 16, Diane, 13, and Ricky, 9. They were actively involved in their church, and from the outside, the Broms looked to be a typical middle-class family. However, David had a dark side, just how dark, not even his family knew.

“It was just my circumstances that day to take that call and stuff happens,” Torgerson said.

At the time, Torgerson had only been in law enforcement for four years, only two in the city of Rochester, when he was dispatched on a call to do a welfare check at the Brom home.

“I knew which house it was, but that I was just going to wait for my backup. We were losing daylight at the time, 5:23 p.m. – I think about that time – 6:00 it’s getting pretty dark, so I got out, and I waited he got out his car and I said well here is what I got, told him the stuff I already knew. announced ourselves ‘sheriff’s office’ and of course, nobody answered,” Torgerson said. “At this point with no one responding, that was the point where really it just … now we got a bad deal here.”

Torgerson goes on to explain going heading to the bedrooms upstairs.

“And when I got to the top of the step, and where I could see up on the floor, then that’s when I saw what turned out to be both females, their feet laying there,” Torgerson said. “And I whispered then to my partner, ‘we’ve got two bodies up here,’ two females, did a quick peek and I remember looking left, it was quite a sight.”

You can hear in his voice, the trained law enforcement officer’s description of just the facts until he gets to the last bedroom.

“So I walked in further and then I got in just to the corner of that little entry of what was Ricky’s room, and he was laying in bed in a fetal position, and again, massive injury to his head, multiple other injuries across his body, and he’s laying there clutching a little blanket.”

In the days that followed, Torgerson and his wife left for an anniversary getaway, the weight of what was inside that house was heavy. However. for whatever reason, Torgerson said he is able to not let crime scenes haunt or burden him, even the one at the Brom house,

“It was just my circumstances that day to take that call, and stuff happens. you know, whatever it was, it was I was able to find a way to get through it,” he said.

And while he would forever carry with him the images from inside the Brom house that night, they are just that, memories.

“You know I can’t get stuck in that place.”

Joe Brom, the oldest of the children was 19 years old at the time and did not live at home. He ended up moving to New York and became a philosophy teacher. He died two years ago from cancer.

As for David Brom, he remains in the St. Cloud Correctional Facility serving time until he is approximately 70 years old when he will be eligible for parole in 2041.

https://www.kaaltv.com/news/rochester-minnesota-david-brom-family-ax-murder/4790899/

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Today marks another anniversary involving one of the most notorious crimes in recent Minnesota history.

Rochester teenager David Brom was sentenced on this date 30-years ago to three consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his parents and two of his siblings inside their suburban northwest Rochester home. Under the state laws in effect at the time, Brom is required to serve 17 ½ years for each life sentence for a total of 52 ½ years behind bars before he will be eligible for parole

The day before, October 15th, 1989, David Brom was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder for the axe murders of Bernard and Paulette Brom, along with 14-year-old Diane and 9-year-old Ricky Brom in the early hours of February 18th, 1988. David Brom, who was 16-years-old, was captured the next day near the northwest Rochester Post Office.

The case attracted national media attention due to the horrific level of violence, Brom’s young age, and a diagnosis of mental illness. He initially faced the charges in juvenile court, but the State Supreme Court later sided with the prosecution and ordered him to stand trial as an adult. He was on trial when he turned 18-years-old and never took the witness stand.

https://krocnews.com/30-years-has-passed-since-murderer-david-brom-was-sentenced/

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