But what he’d heard was the pistol going off without anyone pulling the trigger, sending a. “I was thinking I’d better go out there and tell him to be careful or something,” Bud, 54, says, his voice trailing off. Bud figured Jarred had fired at something for the fun of it, like he did sometimes. His son Jarred, 28, had just picked up Bud’s Taurus PT-145 Millennium Pro pistol and headed out to do some shooting near the house in Griffin, Ga., with his best friend, Tyler Haney. on the last day of 2016, bleeding out.īrown is telling the story now, about how he was sitting in his chair in the living room when he heard the shot. It’s where he found his boy slumped against the cold back wall of the house around 7:15 a.m. Thomas “Bud” Brown makes his way out the back door and stops a few steps to the right, raising a trembling arm, pointing at something.
