In May 2015, seven-year-old Kester Tony Browne III and his 31-year-old mother, Jennifer Jeffrey-Browne, were found shot to death in their home on Upmanor Road in Southwest Baltimore. Kester was a second-grader in the Chinese Immersion program at Baltimore International Academy Elementary/Middle School; classmates and teachers remembered him as a jokester who liked to help others. A vigil at his school displayed his last art project, a picture of a flower, as the community mourned.

The case stalled for years amid few witnesses and a crowded homicide caseload, leaving the family and neighborhood without answers. In 2020, federal prosecutors announced the arrest of Andre R. Briscoe; authorities say the killings were tied to a drug-related dispute and allege Kester was killed to prevent him from witnessing the murder of his mother. If anyone knew the family, their routines, or saw suspicious activity around Upmanor Road in May 2015, please share information with investigators.