Michael Henry Brown, 33, of Lenoir City, Tennessee, was killed on the evening of October 22, 2014, after an altercation that began during an illicit drug transaction. Brown, a father of four and an avid skydiver, reportedly became involved in a dispute when the buyer, Taylor Richard Waldrop Johnson, backed out of the deal. Brown and another man followed Johnson to his Rambling Acres Trailer Park residence.
Johnson locked himself in a back bedroom, but Brown forced the door. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators from the Lenoir City Police Department, the 9th District Attorney General’s office, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reviewed witness statements and evidence and concluded the shooting was an act of self-defense under Tennessee’s Stand Your Ground law, and no criminal charges were filed against Johnson. The grand jury presentation was pending final autopsy and toxicology reports.
If anyone witnessed the events at Rambling Acres Trailer Park on October 22, 2014, or knew Michael Brown, does anything about that night stand out that could help clarify what happened?