From: [pc man] at [access.netaxs.com] (Howard L. Bloom)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Death Clock creator a liar?  You decide!
Date: 20 Feb 1994 08:53:46 -0500


Source:  The Home News
Date:    October 10, 1993

Title:   Brennan's memories modified
by   :   The Associated Press

Newark -  Financier Robert Brennan spoke movingly about the shooting death
of his brother 25 years ago when reporters asked him about a foundation he
created to get guns out of youths' hands.  

	At a news conference in August to launch the Dehere Foundation,
Brennan said his 23 year old brother, Kevin was murdered in 1969 by a
robber with an illegal handgun.

	Kevin Brennan, however, was killed May 17, 1969, at the end of a
chase along the Garden State Parkway by three Middlesex County sheriffs
officers.

	Rudolph Johnson, now the warden of the Middlesex County Adult
Corrections Center, was the sheriff's officer who fired the fatal shot at
Kevin Brennan.

	He called the shooting "an unfortunate situation" and "nothing I'm
proud of" but said he shot after Brennan pointed what turned out to be a
starter's pistol at the other two officers.

	Johnson expressed shock, at hearing Robert Brennan's version of
the story.

	"That's incredible," Johnson said, "It puts me in a position where
I've got to get in another argument with the family after 23 years."

	A grand jury sharply criticized the behavior of the officers and
their superiors at the time.