High School romance murder-suicide
:Colorado Teen Fatally Shoots Girlfriend’s Companion, Beats Her, Kills Self After Car Chase:
This story is the definition of tragic.
17-year-old Andrew Brown of Colorado Spring had just recently been broken up with his girlfriend 16-year-old Tiffany Howard. Howard had concerns for her safety and sought refuge with her friends that were riding in Michael Fisher’s Ford Explorer. Brown had chased them down in his Chevy Suburban and rammed Fisher’s SUV. Brown then pulled up beside them and fired a shotgun blast at them wounding passenger Jeremy Vasquez. When they stopped the Explorer to aid Vasquez Brown fired his shotgun several times killing Michael Fisher. Brown then beat Tiffany Howard with the butt of his shotgun. The teens had already called 911 and when the first police arrived Brown pulled another shotgun from the car and took his own life. Tiffany Howard’s injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
When my first real girlfriend broke up with me I was devastated and cried for days. What I didn’t do was grab a pair of shotguns and go after her. Like I keep telling you kids a high school romance is nothing worth losing your life or taking somebody else’s. The odds are you won’t be together after high school anyway.
Tags: andrew-brown, colorado-springs, michael-fisher, murder-suicide, Take the Hint, tiffany-howardPOSTED IN: Take the Hint
8 opinions for High School romance murder-suicide
Bianca
Nov 15, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Well, it sounds to me you don’t know the boy so you shouldn’t be saying anything. If you’ve never walked in someone else’s shoes then keep it shut.
Andrew Brown was my greatest friend and he’ll always be. I don’t know what made him snap, but I do know that he was one hell of a person. I wish people could see the side of him that I’ve always known
Claudia
Nov 19, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Obviously this guy had serious issues and these people wonder why they get broken up with. Hmmm, let me think….You’re crazy!!
Dustin H.
Dec 3, 2007 at 1:02 am
I knew this guy for about 10 years, I always thought he would do something like this. It just makes me sad I was right. Andrew was a good person, but he was a bad person to. I guess we all are in our own way though. Its been about a month since it happened, but I can’t get it off my mind. I’m angry at him for what he did
ligeia
Dec 18, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Bianca,
No matter how close you thought you were to this guy; you obviously did not know him well. You can make excuses for him all you want, but there is no defending someone for doing something like this. People that do these types of things, do not see other humans as the same thing as themselves; they see other humans as objects, or possessions. Subsequently, they think they have a right to do whatever they please to these “objects” if they displease them.
I never met this young man, but I would be willing to bet he had the classic “bully” mentality, too.
As far as I am concerned, he did the right thing in killing himself; I just wish he had killed only himself and had left the others alone to live their lives the way THEY wanted, vs. living them the way he wanted.
Tanner
Dec 28, 2007 at 6:09 pm
yeah i knew this guy too i talked to him 30 mins before he did this i had no idea that he was going to snap i thought it was another thing you dont know what its like to look at some one for the last time and have them leave you like he left every one
Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer
Jan 13, 2008 at 2:54 pm
While the farthest thing from what I would do is condone any of what Andrew Brown did, I take offence at, and I think it is time for others to speak out against, the patronising characterisation of “high school romance” [sic]. There is no reason to view high-school romance as differently than romances between men and women, who are older, and indeed the love might even be stronger and purer. The casual attitude taken towards these failures may be justified in some cases, and in others it might not be — it is by insulating oneself towards the implications of the possibility of a lifetime not spent together, the children unborn to the couple who broke up who could have done all sort of wonderful or terrible things, children who could discover a cure for cancer or a solution to global warming, commit war crimes, be brilliant painters or filmmakers, assassinate presidents or bring warring nations together over a peace treaty, be knights or hobos, trapeze artists or drifters, accountants or perjurers, necromancers or arsonists, engineers of bridge and locomotive — it is these unrippled ripples — that allows one to shrug the shoulders. Anyone who doesn’t believe that in some circumstance a high-school love might be worth dying for (although empatically not by suicide after committing murder and rifle-butting your ex-girlfriend) is a cynical person whose blood has been infected by the bureaucrat’s attitude, but the real motive behind this is an anti-love attitude and a desire to put teenagers down and keep them under control.
Jade
Mar 12, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Yeah well unless you knew Michael you have no room to talk either. He was always helping people and just because Andrew lost someone he loved, Michael in return lost his life. Yes it is a regretable thing that Tiffany no longer wanted to be with him but he shouldn’t have made the decision to take someone elses life. I think we all know what it is like to lose someone we love out of heart break or death and he had to go as far as killing someone that had nothing to do with her breaking up with him. So don’t make excuses, he did what he did and that in turn will of course make people die hard upset at him. Whether you tell us Andrew was a good person or not we just got to see the worse. So like you said, wait until you are in our shoes when someone you love dies because of another persons unstable mind.
Michael was one of my best freinds and unfortunately I wasn’t able to tell him that enough times. I hope some day people realize that killing is not going to get you anywhere. Not only are you taking the lives of someone, but you are hurting the ones that loved them.
Harrison
May 26, 2008 at 2:30 am
AJ… was a brother to me… and I remember when he once said to us all, “When we get out of high school… lets buy a big house… so we can all live together, and be with the ones we love… because I cant stand to lose any of my brothers…”
I guess thats the AJ ill remember…
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