Posted on 10/20/2017 6:18:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
May 5, 16-year-old Jchandra Brown hanged herself at a campground in Payson, Utah. Her friend Tyerell Przybycien is accused of helping her by buying the rope and tying the noose she put around her neck, and the compressed air she used to knock herself out before dying.
Przybycien encouraged Brown to go through with the suicide, even providing running commentary as he recorded her last moments on video, according to court documents.
Now, Przybycien, 18, is being charged with first-degree murder in her death.
If convicted, he would face a minimum of 15 years in prison.
Prosecutors say Brown wouldn’t have killed herself, if not for Przybycien’s involvement, which they say he boasted about in texts and interviews. His defense, however, says the charge goes too far, and it was Brown and Brown alone who ultimately ended her life.
Both the prosecution and defense agree that Przybycien was involved in Brown’s death. Investigators found that he purchased rope and compressed air and drove Brown to the Maple Lake Campground, where she killed herself. The site is about 15 miles south of Spanish Fork... and about 25 miles south of Provo, Utah.
Przybycien tied the rope into a noose and recorded Brown for more than 10 minutes, according to court documents, as she stood on a rock formation with it around her neck, inhaled compressed gas and finally slipped off the rock to her death.
Investigators say they recovered texts that show Przybycien had thought about Brown’s death beforehand and discussed it with a friend.
“What do you do if you knew a friend was trying to commit suicide?” he texted a friend on April 19, two weeks before Brown’s death.
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Przybycien continued: “The thing is.. I wanna help kill them. It be awesome. Seriously im going to help her...."
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Very sad, totally amoral people.
sick twisted f@ck!
“Assisted suicide” = “practicing medicine without a license”
Wasn’t there just a similar type thing in MA (I think)?
A girl insisted her boyfiend kill himself——she was on the phone with him.
What a sick world.
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He missed his calling. He could have starred in a remake of Deliverance as a banjo player.
His lawyer needs to go for a diminished mental capacity defense. He has the appearance.
I’d like to “assist” in knocking the crap out of him.
some lawyer will try to make it complicated. but it isn’t
her “friend” is evil, and he thought he could get away with murder.
Wouldn’t it be cool if he got the death penalty? / sarc
Society would be better off without that sub-human in it. It has no soul.
And in Ohio, I just read where a Moslem dad shot his daughter to death while she was asleep for “no respect” issues, and got off with 3rd degree
“Przybycien was also charged with possessing child pornography after police found images of girls who appeared to be under age five as they searched his phone for evidence in the investigation of the girl’s death”
He needs to go away forever and ever.
This IMHO is far worse. The girl in MA was on the phone a hundred miles away. This guy here was an active participant, standing next to her, assisting her.
Yeah, what a sick world.
I’d like to buy a vowel.
“At no point did the defendant offer assistance to save (the girl’s) life or render aid but rather he can be heard commenting that her body should be depleted from any oxygen,” court documents read.
“Her putting the noose around her neck, stepping onto the pedestal and inhaling the compressed air so she passed out and slipped from the pedestal caused her death,” he said.
As usual, poor writing, inconsistent portrayal of the facts.
Was it air or was it gas?
Obviously breathing compressed air is not going to kill you unless your lungs are over pressurized and burst.
So it has to be a gas that will deplete the oxygen levels in her blood which makes the noose superfluous. Probably Helium. It is relatively cheap and easy to buy for those who want to inflate balloons for parties. You can rent the cylinder and regulator from party stores.
I was thinking, she was his girlfriend? He didn't show any sort of love for her, did he? He didn't get her counseling or any kind of help but gleefully proceeded to enjoy facilitating her evident mental debilitation towards an awful demise. According to her online obituary she left behind many who loved her and mourn her. I feel sorry for all of them and for this poor girl.
He could reuse the rope.
Recycle the rope. More PC.
Hmmmm. First degree?
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