The headstone in Ewing Cemetery bears three likenesses of the young man beneath it. His poem is etched into the granite. His rap moniker, “Brilly Da Prince,” is carved above his name. But nearly 2,000 miles away in Albuquerque, the questions that haunt his grave remain stubbornly unanswered.
One year has passed since Airman Brion Teel-Scott was shot and killed by members of his own squadron, the very security forces he was tasked with joining to help protect Kirtland Air Force Base. He was 28 years old. It was his birthday.
The official account, stitched together from preliminary Albuquerque police reports and the Air Force’s sparse releases, tells only what the killers who chased him were willing to say…