Nicholas Browning was fifteen years old when he would murder his father, mother and two siblings
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Nicholas Browning Video Transcript
Nicholas Browning Video Transcript
0:00Imagine waking up on a Saturday morning in a quiet Maryland neighborhood. The kind of
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8 secondsplace where kids play lacrosse in the front yard and neighbors wave from their driveways. Nothing ever happens here.
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17 secondsBut on February 2nd, 2008,
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21 secondssomething unthinkable happened inside one house on that street. Four people were dead. And the person responsible,
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31 secondshe was back at his friend’s house playing video games, acting like nothing happened at all. He was 15 years old.
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40 secondsNicholas Browning was 15, living in Maryland with his parents, John and Tamara, and his two younger brothers,
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48 secondsGregory and Benjamin.
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50 secondsFrom the outside, the Brownings looked perfect. They were active in their local church, widely respected in Cockisville,
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59 secondsand nearly 300 people would later attend the family’s funeral. Nicholas himself was described in court as an honor
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1 minute, 8 secondsstudent and former boy scout. The night before the murders, Nicholas wasn’t home. He was staying at a friend’s
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1 minute, 16 secondshouse. Before he left, he asked his brother Gregory to leave the basement door unlocked.
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1 minute, 23 secondsAfter midnight on Saturday, February 2nd, he walked home. In the basement, he put on gloves, picked up his father’s
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1 minute, 32 secondshandgun and a spare magazine. Nicholas Browning would enter the home and murder his father, mother, and two siblings.
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1 minute, 40 secondsGregory, 14, and 11year-old Benjamin.
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1 minute, 44 secondsNicholas would then leave the home and return to his friend’s home. The next day, he went to the mall with friends.
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1 minute, 52 secondsHe even called his family’s home phone several times, leaving voicemails saying he loved them and would see them soon.
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2 minutesHe stayed there a couple of days before finally telling the friend what he’d done. Eventually, a friend’s father drove him home. Nicholas went inside,
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2 minutes, 11 secondscame out, and said something was wrong with his dad. The man saw John Brown’s body on the couch, and called police.
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2 minutes, 20 seconds15-year-old Nicholas Browning would make a full confession and would show the police where the murder weapon was.
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2 minutes, 27 secondsNicholas was a week shy of his 16th birthday, too young for the death penalty in Maryland. At 16, he pleaded
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2 minutes, 36 secondsguilty to four counts of first-degree murder for the February slayings of John, 45, Tamara, 44, Gregory, 14, and
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2 minutes, 47 secondsBenjamin, 11. In exchange, he avoided life without parole. He received two consecutive life sentences.
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2 minutes, 57 secondsUnder state guidelines at the time, he could become eligible for parole in about 23 years if he was a model inmate,
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3 minutes, 5 secondsthough officials noted murderers are rarely granted parole at first hearing.
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3 minutes, 11 secondsThe initial deal was described as life with no chance of parole for 20 years.
