Najee T. Brown

How they died

Deadly force

Officers were called to the same building where they said Najee Brown had gunned down his friend, Ryan Travis, 19, two days prior. As they converged on Brown, he walked down Central Avenue--past a row of two-story houses--firing a semiautomatic assault weapon at them. Police demanded that he drop the high-powered weapon, but he refused, and was shot and killed.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Najee T. Brown, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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