Hayward Leslie Brown

 

 

    'just tired of being arrested'

 

 

   

 

"Mad Dog Killer"

 

Cop Killer

 

would-be Robin Hood

 

 

13-Jun-84 Shot and Killed on the 300

Block of Holbrook near Brush

 

 

Gun Battles

 

Drug Possession

 

Armed Robbery

 

Weapons Possession

 

Murder and Arson

 

Gun and Drug Violations

 

Leftist causes

 

 

Political folk hero

 

 

Face appeared on T-Shirts advocating vigilante

actions in the black community to drive out

dope dealers

 

 

Brown, Bethune and Boyd

 

04-Dec-72 four plainclothes police officers

(STRESS Unit) were shot on Livernois near

Stoepel. STRESS controversial because of

several killings of suspects, mostly young

black men

 

 

27-Dec-72 Street shoot-out near West Chicago

and Schaefer Highway left one officer dead

and his partner critically wounded

 

 

12-Jan-74 At 18, arrested for the firebombing of a

federally financed birth control clinic near Wayne

State University

 

 

• 04/07/73 Murder Charge Dropped in Police Death in Detroit

 

• 05/06/73 Black Youth Tried in Shots at Police

 

• 06/14/84 Man the Courts Couldn't Convict was 70s Cause Celebre

 

• 06/14/84 Ex-Suspect in Shootings of Cops Dies in Shooting

 

• 06/14/84 FBI to Conduct Tests on Fatal Bullet

 

• 06/15/84 Police Hunt Slayers of 70s Nemesis

 

• 06/17/84 'Talkng About a Man' Police Nemesis Mourned

 

• 06/12/85 Accused Killer's Death Leaves Many Loose Ends

 

 

"The Street is a Stern Mistress"