[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 136 (Friday, September 27, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1748-E1749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO ANTONIO BROWN

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                           HON. JACK KINGSTON

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 26, 1996

  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I submit for the Record a story of a true 
hero. It is fitting and proper for Congress to recognize Mr. Antonio 
Brown for his gallant effort. We need more citizens like him.

            [From the Savannah Morning News, June 28, 1996]

                Man Shot Trying To Thwart Armed Robbery

                    (By John Cheves and Keith Paul)

       Antonio L. Brown wasn't going to stand quietly and watch a 
     mugging.
       Not on his street. Not when the victim was a friend.
       Instead, Brown was shot in the head at about 11 p.m. 
     Wednesday after he attempted to thwart the armed robbery on 
     the 600 block of East Duffy Street, just a stone's throw from 
     his family's home.
       He remained in critical condition Thursday night at 
     Memorial Medical Center.
       The 21-year-old Savannah High School graduate was standing 
     in his small front yard late Wednesday, relatives said. When 
     Brown looked west down Duffy Street, he saw the attempted 
     mugging of a male friend.
       ``He said, `I just can't let that happen like that,' and 
     then he walked over there,'' said nephew Rajai Steward on 
     Thursday.
       Added Savannah police Detective Deborah A. Robinson, 
     ``Brown stepped in between the two to stop the robbery. He 
     was trying to fight with the assailant and was shot once in 
     the head.''
       Police searched Thursday for the suspected gunman, Jarrett 
     Myers, 20, of 413 E. Waldburg St. Police filed warrants 
     charging Myers with aggravated assault.
       Brown knew Myers casually, but the two weren't friends, 
     Brown's family said.

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       The 600 block of East Duffy Street is a narrow, dead-end 
     road that sits in the heart of ``Area C,'' a midtown 
     neighborhood generally considered the poorest and most 
     violent part of Savannah.
       But Brown, known as Tony to friends, wasn't the type of man 
     to walk away from a threat in a hostile environment, 
     relatives said.
       ``I look at him as a hero, Steward said. ``A lot of * * * 
     men, they wouldn't have gotten involved.''
       Brown's wife, Jacqueline Steward, said Brown had just been 
     hired as a bricklayer here in Savannah, and he had a strong 
     work ethic.
       ``He was the type of person, he didn't bother with 
     nobody,'' she said. ``He didn't hang out on the street or 
     sell drugs, or anything like that.''

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