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Briana Brooks

Case from Atlanta, GA dated Aug 30, 2014

Victim Details

Briana Brooks

Female

Black / African American

Atlanta

GA

2014-08-30

21

Briana

Brooks

07/17/2026

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In August 2014, 21-year-old Briana Brooks and her 23-year-old fiancé, Jeonta Brown, were kidnapped at gunpoint from in front of Brown's mother's house in DeKalb County, Georgia. The couple had just returned from a late-night food run. For hours, their captors held them and called family members demanding a ransom.

The kidnappers, later identified as Andre Gay and Richard Wilson, had been under the mistaken belief that a relative of the couple had recently received a large sum of money fr ...
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  • Briana Brooks, Jeronta Brown Died in Execution-Style Murder
  • Meet the little girl who survived her mother's murder, before she was ...
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    Does anyone else feel completely puzzled by the escape of Jeronta’s sister with the baby? It seems... ...Read More
    06/28/2024
    It's hard to wrap my head around what happened to Briana and Jeronta. I've been thinking a lot about... ...Read More
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