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Police turned to the media to get the public’s help and a $20,000 reward was offered. Gay and Wilson kidnapped Brooks and Brown believing one of their relatives recently received a significant amount of money from an insurance settlement.
Hours into the kidnapping the defendants called the victim’s family members asking for ransom.
The couple seemed to have it all; they had an eight-month-old daughter, were expecting another child, and had plans to get married, that is, until the fatal incident occurred. She was taken to Grady Hospital where her unborn baby was delivered two months early. “The investigation ultimately revealed that Briana and Jeranta were not the intended objectives of these masked gunmen,” said Rucker.
When Kawana asked to talk to her son, she heard him say, “These boys are not playing.” However, negotiations failed since the couple’s unconscious bodies were recovered mere hours later, and the ensuing investigation eventually led to Andre Gay and Richard “Fathead” Wilson.
Both men actually have an extensive and violent criminal history.
ATLANTA, GA -- Two men will receive four consecutive life sentences without parole in the Aug. 30, 2014, executive-style murder of a pregnant woman and her fiance. When Reddick handed the phone to police, the caller hung up.
“That was last time that there is any communication to the family from the victims or the kidnappers themselves,” said Brett Zimbrick, a former detective with the Atlanta Police Department.
Reddick had seen the assailants drive away in a light-colored van.
“Calvin had been flashing a lot of money,” said Abate. Their inner circle described Briana as “spunky and feisty” and Jeronta as “very quiet.” They were opposites who attracted.
By 2014, they had two children with a third on the way. Cathy saw them from outside and tried to rush back home, but Andre fired through the door, hitting Michael in the head and Cathy in her leg.
Andre was also a suspect in the August 1990 murder of Kenneth Ellison.
That’s because he ran away from the halfway house he was living at. Brown
was already dead while Brooks was unconscious but still gasping for air.
Search for Abducted couple Jeronta Brown and Briana Brooks
When officers arrived, the masked invaders were gone. Brooks was declared brain dead. The two men reportedly felt that Briana and Jeronta’s family had come into money after an insurance settlement, leading them to target them for ransom.
Andre Gay and Richard “Fathead” Wilson Are Behind Bars Today
Andre and Fathead were apprehended a few weeks following the August 2014 incident and faced a bevy of charges.
Gay and Wilson shot Brown and Brooks in the back of the head and left them to die on the side of the road. Andre had been released from prison on parole earlier in 2013 after serving more than two decades for the November 1990 double homicide of 39-year-old Cathy Dozier and 17-month-old Michael Broughton. Jeronta was on the line.
The two victims’ families felt that the local authorities could have responded quicker or listened to their pleas to go after Briana and Jeronta after the kidnap, but alas, it was already too late. He essentially told them, “Prove it,” according to The Real Murders of Atlanta. Gay and Wilson met in prison and both men were out on parole.