Michelle Duncan
David Brom
Fortson
English lV
1/13/2024
David Brom: A personal choice
In my opinion, I believe that David Brom's actions were committed by his own personal choices. I believe this because the motive of his crime has not been revealed.
David was born on October 3, 1971. He grew up in Cascade Township, Olmsted county, Massachusetts in a two-story blue house surrounded by woods at the end of a long driveway, with his mother and father, Paulette(42) and Bernard(42), and 3 siblings, Diane (14), Richard (9), and his older brother Joe(18). David was only 16 when killed his family, in the early morning of February 18, 1988. The night before, David and his father had gotten into an argument, Allegedly the argument was about his father disapproving of the music David was listening to. David stayed up til three in the morning and then committed his crime. His Father was the first victim, found in his bedroom beaten by an axe that was later found in the basement of the house. A friend of David's was the first one to know of his crimes and was asked to skip school with him the same day while David shared details of the murder. "I hit my dad with the axe, and kept hitting him until he didn't
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She never could have imagined that her best friend was dead, killed by her own brother. She thought about how she was just in the Brom household the weekend before. Price didn't want to believe that it had been David, thinking that maybe he had escaped the horrific scene. Even when David confessed to his crime the next day after being caught at a pay phone by the local postal office, she still couldn't fathom the thought, "Even at that point, I thought someone had a gun to his head in some way. " Prince says that she never once blamed David, and to this day keeps in touch with him through letters written occasionally over the years and would like to visit him one