Braxton Overton Brown

In the quiet community of West Point, Alabama, Braxton Overton Brown, a 58-year-old local business owner, went about his day on March 23, 1992, unaware of the brutal fate that awaited him. That evening, a dispute over a small amount of credit for gasoline would escalate into a horrific sequence of events, ending his life and shaking the small town to its core.

The trouble began when Max Landon Payne, a local resident, was refused gasoline on credit at Brown's West Point Grocery. Angered b ...

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Braxton Overton Brown, age 58 - National Gun Violence Memorial