Story Published:
Oct 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM EST
Story Updated:
Oct 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM EST
AUGUSTA, Ga. - The Augusta man convicted of killing a Domino's Pizza manager 15 years ago will be put to death Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
Mark McClain's last appeal was denied. A jury convicted McClain for killing Kevin Brown during a robbery in Augusta in 1994.
McClain got away with $130 from the cash register.
Brown's friends say he was a simple man - someone who loved playing his bass guitar and an inspiration to the local music scene.
"Nobody would shoot Kevin, nobody. Nobody would do that," said friend Scott Hudson.
But someone did shoot and kill Kevin Brown during an armed robbery while he was working at Domino's Pizza on November 20, 1994.
A year later, a jury found Mark McClain guilty of murdering Brown.
Although, it's been 15 years since Brown's murder, his friends remember the good times like it was yesterday.
"Kevin and friends would show up late nights at the radio station 20 years ago. I'd be on auto pilot, we'd be bored so we'd sit out in the main studio and just jam," said Hudson.
"He really couldn't play and sing at the same time but he did sing one song that was, 'Simple Man' by Lynyrd Skynyrd and it described him to a T," said friend Stoney Cannon.
His friends say it was his love for the bass guitar that not only inspired them, but also others who were trying to start a local music scene in Augusta.
"Kevin loved music, Kevin loved helping people and that had a lot to do with what I've become," said Cannon.
In December 2004, Cannon held the first annual Kevin Scott Brown Rocking the Stocking concert, featuring live music by Augusta bands.
It's become an annual tradition.
Cannon visits Brown's resting place every Christmas.
"Every year, usually after Rocking the Stocking we get a little Christmas tree and put it there and do a little decorating," said Cannon.
Remembering a man they call a sweet, shy, simple kind of guy.
"I know there's a ton of people and friends who loved him to death and wished he was still here," said Cannon.
Kevin Brown was an only child. His mother died when he was young.
At McClain's trial Brown's father told jurors he was not only his son, he was also his friend.
Brown's father has since passed away.
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