They early-on tried to drag his long-dead mother, who was reportedly a fraudster and con-woman, into it. Remember?
Brown graduated in summer. That means he flunked at least one course and had to go to school. Either he was lazy, truant or got himself suspended so much that he quit working on his classwork.
Why he was staying with his grandmother might have something to do with this.
Fortunately I must have missed that - sounds too raw for even the lefties to carry on for too long.....