Ean Keith Brown, Picture Courtesy of the Huntington Beach Police Department
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Case # 12CF0072
Date: February 4, 2015
THIRD-STRIKER PAROLEE CONVICTED OF STRANGLING-MURDER OF WOMAN IN RV
SANTA ANA – A third-striker parolee was convicted today of murdering a 21-year-old woman by strangling her to death in his recreational vehicle (RV). Ean Keith Brown, 41, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of second degree murder. The defendant has two prior strike convictions and serious felony priors for second degree robbery in 1995 and burglary in 2008. The Court will hear a bifurcated trial on the defendant’s prior strike convictions onFeb. 27, 2015, at 9:00 a.m., in Department C-41, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana. Brown faces a maximum sentence of 55 years to life in state prison if convicted of the prior strike offenses.
Brown was released from state prison in 2010 and was on parole for burglary. After his release from prison and at the time of the murder, the defendant lived in an RV in the driveway of his parent’s Huntington Beach home. Continue reading