Henry Hayes Harris Brown

Henry "Hayes" Harris Brown was a 13-year-old White male from the Houston, Texas, area who was remembered by loved ones as sweet, funny, charming, and respectful. He loved baseball and his older brother, Sam, and was known for laughing a lot. Henry's life, along with those of his mother and brother, was tragically ended on March 8, 2020.

On that Sunday, authorities in Fort Bend County were called to a horrific scene. Inside a home, they found the bodies of Henry; his brother, 16-year-old Samuel "Sam" Nelson Brown; and their mother, 49-year-old Lynnette Marie Lambert Brown. All three family members had been killed by gun violence.

An investigation by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office soon determined that the incident was a murder-suicide. Deputies concluded that the boys' father and Lynnette's husband had killed his wife and their two teenage sons before taking his own life.

The deaths of the Brown family sent shockwaves through their community, where friends and coworkers later gathered to celebrate the lives of Lynnette and her sons. Because investigators identified the father as the sole person responsible and he was deceased, the case was considered closed. The final determination of the case as a murder-suicide occurred in March 2020.