Man with violent past arrested in Athens Gardens for gun incident

By Joe Johnson

A man with a background of violence was arrested over the weekend after pointing a gun during a possible dispute over drugs at an eastside apartment complex.

Bobby Leroy Brown Jr. had been convicted a few years ago of shooting someone and his father is a convicted murderer.

His arrest on Sunday afternoon came after police received a call about Brown pointing a gun at a woman he was arguing with outside an apartment on Coleridge Court in the Athens Gardens complex.

Officers recovered a .38-caliber revolver from the area where they apprehended Brown, and when searching him they found 10 bags of meth.

The 28-year-old Deer Park Drive resident was charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felony first offender.

Brown in 2020 had been convicted of shooting a man on Berlin Street but he served just a year in confinement at the county jail as the result of a plea bargain that included no time on probation.

He was 11 years old when his father beat his mother to death with a tree branch in 2007 on Sunny Hills Drive.

A jury convicted Bobby Leroy Brown Sr. for the murder of Roberta Brown and he was sentenced to life in prison.

Brown Jr. is being held without bail in pretrial detention.