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These lines by Guillermo Sánchez Borbón were prophetic. Three months to
the day of the events of May 7, i.e., on August 7, Silverio Brown, the common criminal
who broke with impunity into the Legislative Palace and led the attack on ADO
supporters, was killed under suspicious circumstances by agents of the National
Investigation Department (DENI, in Spanish).

“Police authorities reported yesterday the violent death
of Silverio Brown, identified by law-abiding citizens as
the leader of the pro-government “PRD Special
Commando” stormtroopers… Even though Office of
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the Assistant Attorney General of the Republic
received footage and photographs clearly identifying
Silverio Alfonso Brown Turton –that was his full
name–, no warrant for his arrest was ever issued in
connection with his open and public role in the bloody
events that took place 24 hours following the May 6
presidential elections.

According to District Attorney Martin, three DENI
agents accompanied Brown, who was pretending to

cooperate with the authorities, to his safe house which
was the same place that La Prensa had earlier
identified as his lair…

The decedent wrested a rifle from one of the officers

and struggled with him; a second officer was forced to
shoot him self-defense, the district attorney stated”40.

Crítica, the same pro-government newspaper that had sought to lay the blame
for the events of May 7 at ADO’s door and had totally ignored the evidence clearly
pointing to Brown and the PRD commandos as the truly guilty parties, said of this
notorious hoodlum.

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Op. cit., August 8, 1984, page 1A. This official version of Brown’s death was flatly denied in “En
Pocas Palabras” in the August 22 issue of La Prensa. The column claims that “Silverio Brown was
killed by four bullets in the back, as the entry wounds clearly show”. It was the tying of one more
loose end, no more and no less.