
2 who had “no leads and no information.”Ī police spokesperson said the department is doing everything it can to track down Brown’s killers. But as time went on, the stories faded, she heard less from the Navy, and updates from La Mesa police were few and far between, according to Adrienne. He was my everything.”Īdrienne flew to San Diego after receiving the horrifying news and was in the area taking care of her son’s affairs during a flurry of news coverage and the start of the criminal investigation. “He was my only child and meant the world to me. He never met a stranger and he loved children. ‘She’s giving us signs’: Gabby Petito’s family members mourn slain 22-year-old, say she’s ‘always with us’īrown, who often went by “Donte,” was active in his family’s church growing up and was a musician, playing the drums, his mom said. I feel that someone knows something,” she told Nexstar’s KSWB this week by email, adding, “I feel the media and the police could help more.”Īdrienne said her “heart was shattered” when she first got the call that her son had been slain on the West Coast. “I feel there’s some information out there. Watching widespread coverage in the death of 22-year-old YouTuber Gabby Petito from her home in South Carolina, the anguished mom questioned whether the same attention for her son would lead to answers. Saturday, April 24, never publicly advanced beyond “two male adults wearing ski masks and black-hooded sweatshirts.”īut the sailor’s mother, Adrienne Brown-Mills, is convinced there is someone who has the information needed to catch her son’s killer. The murder of Corneilius Donte Brown, an active-duty sailor who had been assigned to the San Diego-based USS Abraham Lincoln since 2018, remains an open investigation at the La Mesa Police Department, but the nature of the crime left detectives little to work with.Ī description of the gunmen, who shot Brown at an apartment on Echo Court around 12:30 a.m. Sword-wielding man dressed as ninja injures soldiers training at California airport
