Murder victim's brother gets year in prison for retaliation beating

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who police say pistol-whipped another man he thought was responsible for his brother’s murder was sentenced to a year in prison.

Jawuan Brown, 20, on Monday told Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court he was sorry for his actions July 27 and that he allowed his anger to get the best of him. He said he hopes he can learn how to curb his anger while he is in prison.

“I know what I did was wrong,” Brown said. “I acted out of anger.”

On July 26, Brown’s 18-year-old brother, Jarrell Brown, was found shot to death at Market Street and West Indianola Avenue on the South Side.

The next day, police said Jawuan Brown went to the Princeton Avenue home of a man he thought was involved in his brother’s death and hit him in the face with a pistol. The victim’s father then came out of the house with a shotgun and fired a round that wounded Jawuan Brown and his sister with buckshot. Witnesses told police Jawuan Brown also fired a shot but police never found a gun.

“Just because there was no gun found there I am not naive enough to believe there is no gun,” Judge Krichbaum said.

Besides the death of his brother, Jawuan Brown’s father was also murdered in 2001, said his lawyer Ronald Knickerbocker.

Read more about the case in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.