JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – First Coast Crime Stoppers is appealing for tips in the 2007 killing of a Jacksonville man who was shot while protecting his girlfriend during a robbery.
Investigators said Barry “BJ” Brooks was killed Nov. 18, 2007, during an attempted robbery near the Mission Springs apartment complex at 5327 Tim O’Connor Road on the city’s Westside. He was walking with his girlfriend when two armed suspects approached; Brooks stepped in to protect her and was fatally shot.
“Someone knows what happened that night. Someone has information, no matter how small it may seem,” Chase Robinson, executive director of First Coast Crime Stoppers, said during the livestream. “Cases may and will grow old, but the pursuit of justice never expires.”…