Paul Alfred Brown was sentenced to death by the State of Florida for the murder of Pauline Cowell
According to court documents Paul Alfred Brown thought that Pauline Cowell was talking behind his back so he went over to her home and would fatally shoot her. Brown would also shoot a teenage girl who thankfully survived
Paul Alfred Brown would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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Paul Alfred Brown Case
Around 1:30 a.m., March 19, 1986 two gunshots
woke Barry and Gail Barlow. Upon entering the Florida
room of their home they found Gail’s seventeen-year-
old sister, Pauline Cowbell, dead in her bed.
Pauline’s friend, Tammy Bird, had also been shot, but
was still alive. The room’s outside door stood open,
missing the padlock with which it had been secured.
Pursuant to information indicating Brown might be a
suspect, sheriff’s deputies began searching for him in
places he was known to frequent and found him hiding
behind a shed in a trailer park where Brown’s brother
lived. They arrested Brown and seized a handgun, later
linked to the shootings, [n2] from his pants pocket.
Brown lived with the murder victim’s mother, and
the victim had only recently moved into her sister’s
home. Brown confessed after being arrested and, at the
sheriff’s office, stated that he had broken into the
victim’s room to talk with her about some “lies” she
had been telling. Although he entered the room armed,
Brown claimed that he had not intended to kill the
girl, but that he planned to shoot her if she started
“hollering.” The jury convicted Brown of armed
burglary, first-degree murder, and attempted first-
degree murder and recommended the death sentence. The
trial court found that the mitigating evidence did not
outweigh the aggravating circumstances and sentenced
Brown to death.
[n2] Tests showed that bullets found at the murder
scene had been fired from the handgun seized from
Brown.
https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/340717/file/08-939_ans.pdf
