Feb 6, 2008 6:57 am US/Eastern
Classmates And Community Remember Slain Family
COCKEYSVILLE (WJZ) ―
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Family and friends gather for a vigil Tuesday night to remember a father, mother and two sons found murdered inside their Cockeysville home.
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Family and friends gather for a vigil Tuesday night to remember a father, mother and two sons found murdered inside their Cockeysville home.
The couple's oldest son stands accused, and there's new insight into what he may have done days before the murder.
Kathryn Brown reports the town of Cockeysville is hurting, and all agree that the Browning family touched many lives.
Tuesday evening mourners filled a football field to say goodbye. The grief was simply too much to bear.
"He went to my school last year, but now he's gone and just never gonna see him again or anything," said a classmate of one of the slain boys.
More than a thousand people gathered on the Cockeysville rec center's football field to mourn the deaths of an entire family.
John Browning, his wife Tammy and their two children Greg and Ben, ages 13 and 11, were all shot to death in their Cockeysville home Friday night.
The couple's other son, 15-year-old Nicholas, is the only suspect. He confessed to killing his family and led police to the gun.
"It's really hard for Cockeysville because whenever you go past their lockers, you would see decorations and signs up all over the school saying RIP Greg and Ben. It's just really sad," said another classmate.
On the surface, Nick Browning was an honors student athlete at Dulaney High on the verge of becoming an Eagle Scout.
But according to
WJZ's newspaper partner, the Baltimore Examiner, friends say he had recently begun talking about killing his family.
"He talked about how rich his father was, how he wanted some of that money. We though he was kidding," said a friend.
Others report how he picked on his younger brothers on the bus, pushing them when they wouldn't listen to him.
At the vigil, classmates and friends of the family struggle for answers, challenged by Cockeysville resident and guest speaker Matt Stover to do the unthinkable, and forgive Nick Browning.
Nick Browning faces four counts of first-degree murder. He is currently being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center without bail.
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