Two more suspects arrested, face murder charges in Fort Worth drive-by shooting
Two more suspects were arrested this week in connection to the January killing of 47-year-old Kevin Lamont Brown, according to a Fort Worth police report.
Police arrested Braylin Brown and Alexis Abeyta, both 21 and from Fort Worth, on Tuesday on suspicion of murder, jail records show. Abeyta remained in jail Wednesday with bond set at $150,000.
According to court records, Braylin Brown appears to have been in jail on charges in another case at the time of Kevin Brown’s death on Jan. 25. Police did not immediately respond to a request for an arrest warrant affidavit for Braylin Brown that might reveal more details of his alleged involvement in the killing.
According to Tarrant County Jail records, Braylin Brown remained in jail Wednesday with bond set at $1 million. He is also facing a separate murder charge and three charges of engaging in organized crime, according to court records. He was arrested on those charges in December 2020, jail records show.
The 2020 murder charge stems from the shooting death of Cheyenne Moore, 17, of Arlington in January of that year.
Braylin Brown is a member of the Lake Como Crips gang, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office wrote in a 2020 motion it filed seeking an increase of his bond on the organized crime charges. Brown was indicted on a murder charge in the death of Moore in May 2020.
Two other people — Damond Cotton and Ashlynn Durham, both 19 — were arrested earlier this year and charged with murder in Kevin Brown’s death. Cotton’s next appearance in court is scheduled for Nov. 4, a status conference, and Durham’s is Oct. 28, for motions.
Cotton is accused of pulling the trigger, while police said Durham drove the pair.
According to Durham’s arrest warrant affidavit, obtained earlier this year by the Star-Telegram, she and Cotton were in a relationship. Police believe the pair planned Kevin Brown’s killing, according to the document. Detectives said they obtained several text messages the two exchanged before and after the drive-by shooting.
Brown was shot in the head outside a home in the 2100 block of Beacon Way.
The warrant said that on the day before the shooting, Cotton asked Durham to pick him up and she wasn’t able to do so. Cotton reportedly asked Durham to take him “by that one house,” before telling her not to come. He later told Durham that he was going to tell an “unknown third party that they will ‘do it tomorrow,” according to the warrant.
This story was originally published October 18, 2022 at 5:27 PM.