NewsWest 9
MIDLAND - A Midland shooting rang out just after 7:30 p.m. Monday night near Fairview Cemetery. It ended with 39-year-old Stephen Gowan dead and 20-year-old Jeremiah Brown behind bars.
According to the felony complaint filed by Midland Police, the shooting began in an alley by the cemetery but ended further down the street in the 1300 block of N. Pecos.
Police found Gowan in his car with a deadly injury right in front of the home of Adrian Rocha.
"I see the guy sitting without moving anything," Rocha said. "He wasn't moving at all."
Rocha didn't know how the car had gone out of control until he got closer.
"First, I was thinking it was some kind of heart attack or something but then I see the blood on his face," he said.
Gowan was shot in the head.
A friend of Brown's came forward to NewsWest 9, staying anonymous, so we'll call her "Jane".
"Jane" was at her apartment just an hour before the shooting happened.
"Yeah, he was," she said. "He went to run and get him something to eat from down the street."
In reality, the complaint reads Brown was meeting with Gowan and his passenger, 40-year-old Joe Martin, in an alley near the cemetery.
"I hear a gunshot ring out," "Jane" said. "I run outside. I have my baby in my hand and I look and there's a white car fleeing down the street."
Gowan hit the gas after getting shot and Martin steered the car to its resting place.
"Jane" said Brown ran back to her apartment.
"I was like 'Is that you out there shooting?' You know, joking around with him and he was like 'No, seriously, no, it's not me,'" she said. "Jeremiah takes off. He says he'll be back. He never shows back up."
Police found Brown at the apartments and arrested him for a different outstanding warrant.
Once at the police station, Brown confessed to shooting Gowan in the head.
Gowan was taken to Midland Memorial Hospital where he died early Tuesday morning.
