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Rocky Road Gangster Strayed From His Turf and Was Executed
posted (August 8, 2019)
He has been on 7News many times ranting about sustained police harassment in the Rocky Road area, but tonight 32 year old Brian Armstrong is in the news because he was executed last night around 6:40 in the Gungulung area. And it wasn't the police who killed him, it was a rival gang. Courtney Weatherburne has more

Brian Armstrong, Deceased
"I am tired, I am tired, my mother will bury me directly because I don't give a f**** my brother."

Courtney Weatherburne reporting
Those were Brian Armstrong's words two months ago and so said, so will be done.

Armstrong was shot and killed last night in the CET Site area in Gungulung. Our information is that he was hanging outside this house and a gunman came up from behind and shot him three times in the back of the head and once to the back.

Voice of: Neighbor
"Ms. Lady I was watching news and I hear plop plop and I presume it was a pop shot and then when the shooting went off my daughter look through the window and say mom a body is on the ground I say no man, maybe he is drunk and he is on the ground."

"I no see nothing, the only thing I hear is gunshot and I see the person down there and I come out, like all the neighbor and I come out too."

According to Armstrong's mom, the Rocky Road resident was working on a house in Gungunlung.

Marjorie Bainton, Mother
"They had a house, someone gave him a job back there to fix a house, plaster a house and must someone pass him and see him back there and shot him."

Armstrong is no stranger to the gang life and he knew the dangers of straying from his turf, but he was fearless street soldier who embraced the final fall.

Brian Armstrong Strong
"Because I'm ready to die; I'm not afraid to die."

Although he was a convicted criminal - who'd spent almost half of his short life in jail, Armstrong's mother mourns him still:

Marjorie Bainton, Mother
"You don't care how bad your kids are, they are for you, you born them, don't care what they do, you love him, that is your belly pain that."

"The person who shot him I am saying he is a coward because he shoot him back on, not front on. I won't take no revenge, I will leave them to God."

In a previous interview Armstrong had said he has 3 kids. Today his mother says she only knows he leaves an unborn child behind. He was shot multiple times to the head and five expended shells were recovered from the scene.

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