NEWS RELEASE: Teen Charged in Murders of Family Members
Posted by Jeff Quinton on February 4, 2008Baltimore County Police release:
15-Year-Old Son Arrested in Murders of His Family Members
Nicholas Browning Charged as an Adult
Baltimore County, Md. (February 3, 2008) - Baltimore County Police have arrested Nicholas Waggoner Browning, 15, and charged him with four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of his mother, his father, and his two younger brothers. Browning has been charged as an adult in the killings. The family lived in the 10900-block of Powers Avenue in Precinct 7/Cockeysville.
Browning, who will turn 16 on February 9, admitted to the killings in an interview with detectives overnight Saturday.
According to investigators, Nicholas Browning had not been getting along with his father. On Friday night he went into the house after the other family members were asleep and shot each of them. He used a handgun that was in the house that belonged to his father. After the shootings, he disposed of it in the bushes along the road not far from his house. He then went and spent Friday night and all day Saturday with some friends. When driven back to his home at about 5 p.m. Saturday, he went into the house, and then came back out to tell his friends that his father was dead inside. Responding police found the father dead in a ground floor room, his mother and two brothers dead in upstairs bedrooms.
The victims are identified as:
* John Browning, 45 years old
* Tamara Browning, 44 years old
* Gregory Browning, 13 years old
* Benjamin Browning, 11 years old
At an appearance before a court commissioner Sunday morning, Browning was denied bail and taken to the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson.
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Cockeysville teen arrested for murder of parents, brothers
4 bodies found in Cockeysville
Comment by Stuck in So Pa
The family is portrayed as almost picture perfect, and yet this happens. What gives? Outward appearances can be deceiving, of course, but for this to happen to the All-American family, AND by one of their own, doesn’t leave much hope for the rest of us!
Comment by cross
outward appearances were not decieving these are the nicest people you could ever meet, ever, as a in law of the family it is very upsetting and very suprising that this could happen