Benjamin Browne

In the summer of 1998, the city of Knoxville was met with a tragedy that has lingered in the community for decades. On August 15th, 43-year-old Benjamin W. Browne Jr., an African American male, was found deceased in a vehicle located at 2327 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. He had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to his chest.

The circumstances that led to Browne's untimely death remain an unsolved mystery, leaving his family and the wider community searching for answers. Born on January 26, ...