The 20-year-old Pensacola man charged with the murder of two people allegedly trying to sell marijuana in 2021 sat in court docket Wednesday and listened to a recording of his legislation enforcement interview during which he admits he was one of many shooters.
In a recorded interview with Escambia County Sheriff’s Workplace investigators performed through the homicide trial, Nathan Brown admitted he robbed and killed David Purchase and Natalie Greenough on Nov. 9, 2021, throughout a deliberate drug deal on the intersection of Waycross and Stonewall avenues.
“No person was presupposed to die. I did not shoot no one,” Brown mentioned early on through the recorded interview. “We had been simply going to carry them up and snatch the dope.”
Regardless of admitting to being a part of the deliberate theft, Brown instructed investigators that Buy, Greenough and an unidentified man within the again seat of Buy’s automobile started taking pictures at them, which led to him and his alleged co-conspirator Hunter Carroll taking pictures Buy and Greenough.
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Testimony from the primary day of trial on Tuesday revealed that responding deputies solely discovered one firearm within the automobile, and it was sitting in Buy’s lap. Investigators additionally mentioned they solely discovered two kinds of shell casings, which match the firearms that Brown and Carroll allegedly had through the theft.
When requested, Brown couldn’t give a solution as to how three individuals shot a firearm when just one gun was situated within the automobile. Investigators additionally imagine Buy and Greenough had been the one individuals within the automobile.
Previous to the trial, Brown’s legal professional Marci McCoy filed a movement with the court docket to forestall the prosecution from enjoying her shopper’s interview in entrance of a jury as a result of Brown admitted to the crime solely after he “was threatened with the arrest of his sister.”
“Mr. Brown initially denied any data of, or involvement within the deaths of Ms. Greenough and Mr. Buy, admitting solely to wanting to purchase marijuana from Mr. Buy,” court docket data say. “After threatening the arrest of his sister, and foster look after his niece, Defendant slowly begins to disclose extra data. In the end he admits to being concerned and firing a weapon throughout an tried theft.”
McCoy pointed to the investigators’ feedback similar to “we’re going to do a search warrant at your sister’s home … (and) since you are not being sincere, you realize, if we discover some weed in there, she’s going to jail,” and “us burning your sister, your loved ones, or no matter to get to the reality, that is what we’ll do.”
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Ultimately, one of many investigators grabbed his telephone, turned from Brown within the interview room and spoke into the telephone {that a} search warrant for Brown’s sister must be written and despatched to a choose. Brown then instantly mentioned he would inform legislation enforcement every little thing in the event that they canceled the search warrant.
“Regulation enforcement knew that his sister was the individual that mattered to him, somebody who was like a mom to him. They used that relationship and threatened to arrest her and have DCF take his niece from her if he didn’t confess,” McCoy’s movement says. “He was improperly influenced by hope delivered to bear by legislation enforcement such that his confession was not of his personal free will.”
Circuit Choose Linda Nobles, who can be presiding over the trial, denied McCoy’s movement to forestall the prosecutor from displaying Brown’s interview with legislation enforcement to a jury.
“After consideration of the movement, the proof, the related authorized authority, and the arguments of counsel, the Courtroom finds Defendant shouldn’t be afforded aid,” Nobles’ order on the movement says.
Brown’s homicide trial continues and is ready to wrap up Thursday, and the jury will then be allowed to deliberate on a verdict. He faces a compulsory minimal sentence of life in jail if convicted on both depend of first-degree felony homicide.
Carroll can be charged with two counts of first-degree felony homicide and awaits his subsequent court docket date on Oct. 4.
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