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Muhammad Ali Brown already serving life in New Jersey sentenced to 93 years for killing 3 Seattle-area men in 2014.
Falana Young held a photo of her son, Dwone Anderson-Young, as she addressed King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers on Friday. Anderson-Young was one of three local men killed by Ali Muhammad Brown in spring 2014.
Muhammad Ali Brown Age
He is 37 years old.
Muhammad Ali Brown Jailed for 93 years
Ali Muhammad Brown, center, confers with defense attorneys Brian Beattie (left) and George Eppler (right) before he was sentenced Friday to 93 years in prison for killing three men in Skyway and Seattle in spring 2014.
Leroy Henderson, who had moved from Indiana to Skyway to care for his uncle, went to the store for chips and grape soda. He was shot 10 times in the back on his walk home.
Ahmed Said and Dwone Anderson-Young were executed five weeks later inside a car after a night out with friends, their bullet-riddled bodies left in the street in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood.
Their killer — a former Seattle resident who fled to New Jersey, randomly gunned down a young college student and committed a slew of other crimes in June 2014 as part of his self-proclaimed jihad against U.S. policy in the Middle East — was sentenced to life in prison for his East Coast offenses.
After eight long years for the families of the men killed here, Ali Muhammad Brown, was sentenced Friday in King County Superior Court to 93 years in prison for three counts of premeditated first-degree murder, guaranteeing he will die behind bars. He’s to be returned to New Jersey to serve out his sentence there.
Brown pleaded guilty to the Washington murder charges in June.
Shot 3 Persons
Senior Deputy Prosecutor John Castleton said Brown randomly shot Henderson, a 30-year-old from Gary, Indiana, on April 27, 2014, “as a test” to see if he could kill for his cause. Castleton said Brown targeted Said, 27, and Anderson-Young, 23, presumably because they were gay.
Trial
“As the court is aware, laws are changing all the time. I don’t know what’s happening in New Jersey, [but] I have no certainty those sentences will remain,” Castleton told Judge Jim Rogers as he advocated for a de facto life sentence on the murder charges, even though Brown has already been sentenced to life in prison. “These lives matter.”
Although defense attorney George Eppler encouraged Rogers to have Brown serve his New Jersey and Washington sentences at the same time so “punishment on these savage offenses begins today and not after he’s dead,” the judge instead ordered the sentences be served back-to-back — an apparent future safeguard against his release, should Brown ever be released from custody in New Jersey.
“I’ve been waiting eight years to have my day in court and talk about my son,” said Falana Young, her face streaked with tears as she addressed Rogers while holding a photo of Anderson-Young. “Dwone was so smart, so intelligent … He was wise beyond his years.”
At 14, Anderson-Young told his mother he was gay.
“I said, ‘I don’t care, I love you, you’re my son,'” Young told the judge. “My concern was, ‘You’re Black, you’re male and you’re gay and not everyone is going to accept you’ … and my fear came true.”
Brown created a profile on Grindr, a gay dating app, and was trading messages with Said, who with Anderson-Young and other friends spent the night of May 31, 2014, at R Place, a gay club on Capitol Hill that’s since closed, court records show. Said later offered Brown and Anderson-Young a ride home, and Brown killed the men three doors down from Young’s house, the records say.
“These men were good men. They didn’t even have criminal records,” Young said of Brown’s victims. “Leroy was taking care of his uncle. Said was working two jobs. My son moved home to help me pay for my daughter to go to college … He killed these men and they’re never coming back.”
She said she wasn’t moved by Brown’s traumatic childhood or his claim that he killed for Allah, a claim he has since apparently renounced. Instead, Young accused Brown of killing her son and Said out of his own self-hatred.