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Among the relatives paying tribute to Tommy Clayton Brown Jr. was one he never got to meet.
Brown died Jan. 2 at the age of 23 when the Toyota he was driving at over 100 miles an hour hit a median on Whalley Avenue and flew into a nearby synagogue.
Family members gathered at the spot Sunday afternoon to place five balloons on a tree and 54 memorial candles below it to commemorate the three-month mark of his death.
Among them was Brown’s daughter Tommie Brown (pictured above held by his mother Tanajah Jackson and his aunt T’aura Penn). Tommie was born a month ago.
“We miss him,” Tommy Brown’s mother Tytesha Henderson said as she added a candle to the temporary memorial.