Brandon “Tiny” Lee Bright

How they died

Suicide

Spotsylvania deputies, Orange officers and deputy U.S. Marshals went to a home looking for the resident, who was wanted on probation violation charges in Dinwiddie and Colonial Heights. He also had pending gun- and theft-related charges in Orange County and Spotsylvania. When police arrived, the man allegedly fired multiple shots in their direction. A deputy returned fire before the man barricaded himself in the house. Police spent the next eight hours trying to convince the man to give himself up. He reportedly started the house on fire and was killed in the conflagration.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Brandon “Tiny” Lee Bright, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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