Flag raised in honor of teen killed in Newton Falls

By Ed Runyan | July 20, 2012 at 12:03a.m.

WARREN

Everett Greathouse, a 15-year-old Newton Falls boy killed July 6 with his parents, liked helping people.

“In the summer, he would cut grass around the neighborhood, and in the winter, Everett would get up early to shovel people’s driveways,” his grandmother, Janet Greathouse, said in a tribute she wrote for him.

“The more he helped people, the happier he was. I can go on and on about him,” she said.

Janet Greathouse; her husband, Gene; and Everett’s sister, Anna Workman, stood in front of the Trumbull County jail Thursday afternoon for the raising of the Trumbull County Victim’s Flag in Everett’s honor.

Miriam Fife, Trumbull County victim-witness advocate, read Janet Greathouse’s tribute during a short ceremony. Identical victim’s flags will fly at the jail and at the Newton Falls Police Department for five days.

The flags were created at the direction of the Trumbull County organization Parents of Murdered Children.

The Victim’s Flag is raised any time a Trumbull County resident under age 18 is killed through violence.

Everett died at his Trumbull Court home in the East River Gardens neighborhood along with his stepfather, Rikki Cogley, 42, and his mother, Kathy Cogley, 39.

Police later determined that Rikki Cogley’s ex-brother-in-law, Robb Brazzon, 55, killed the three after killing Brazzon’s girlfriend, Tracey Engler, 38, at Brazzon’s Newton Drive home, also in the East River Gardens.

Brazzon later killed himself in the Newton Falls Cemetery a few miles to the north.

Janet Greathouse’s tribute said Everett, who would have been a freshman this year at Newton Falls High School, was looking forward to a hunting trip with his grandfather in November and becoming a Marine after finishing high school.

“Everett is dearly loved and missed by family and friends. We will love you forever in our hearts,” she said.

After the ceremony, Janet Greathouse said the ceremony and other events that have taken place in Everett’s honor have helped the family through its suffering.

“The support of family and friends have been a great help,” she said.