was pretty calm, talking to different people. whenever we met her she was very calm. to calm? i anticipated her needing comfort and i went to hug her and she just held her arms down straight and didn t seem to need that type of consoling. and instead of sticking close to keith s best side in his last hours they thought it was strange that becky was often outside. she was sitting with her legs crossed, out with her friend, smoking and very casual. that it was completely bizarre. becky s brother david said he knows his sister best and with the front saw is how becky was coping. in your eyes was becky acting exactly the way a wife would act after a random senseless shooting? becky acted just like becky would act if someone came in
keith s deputy hamilton didn t think so. i never was concerned about that. why not? for one thing it would ve been four years since we had hired anybody, so nobody is going to sit and stu for four years and then all of a sudden get mad and shoot the guy that didn t hire him. but if the shooter wasn t angry over a job in keeps fire department there was another possibility. one that neighbors of the bryan s worried about, keith did projects on the house was the killer someone who had wanted a construction job and didn t get it? one neighbor told police that a few weeks earlier a stranger had been driving around asking for work as a handyman. he said the man had a funny face and drove an old pickup truck. he also remembered seeing a similar truck the night of the shooting. are you interviewing neighbors? are you asking people if they saw anyone suspicious in the neighborhood? if they saw truck in the
canning with mystery in mustang. in the tight-knit community of mustang folks who knew each other so well for so long began to swap stories. memories of their friend keith, the hero the dad, the loyal husband and friend. but also stories about his wife and then night keith was killed. gianna hickman who had rushed to the bryant s home that night was outside with becky and remembered hearing this not long after the crime. i heard her just say something about it would be hard to sell the house because he had died in the house. did that sound callous to you? being a realtor i can see her thinking about that, it was a little odd, i thought. at the hospitals some friends noticed that becky was agitated one minute, eerily calm the next. she wasn t emotional, she
where it went out that a brazen intruder had shot fire chief keith bryan in his own home and within minutes first responders swarmed the house, securing it as a crime scene. as keith was rushed to the hospital, his wife becky stayed behind. detectives were on their way as she spoke to her brother david on the phone. she was crying and frantic i set settle down it will be okay who is with you? her son was there. janet hickman a good friend of the family and wife of a fire chief herself rushed over to the brian s. i went over hugged her neck and told around sorry i was god would get us through this. keith s deputy chief hamilton reached becky on her cell phone. i told her not to worry, he will do a full investigation and they will figure out who did it. at the house, becky was on the rear patio on the phone with friends and family repeating the story of the armed intruder.
clinging to life. i told her i said he is going into surgery and she said really? keith made it to surgery still in terrible shape but alive in the icu. when becky arrived the halls of the hospitals were filled with friends loved ones and keeps firefighter brothers. it seemed have the town of mustang was they re praying for keith. how hard was it for you to see keith in that condition? it was very, very hard. you know, i would tell myself, you never know, have heard so many stories of people having head injuries and i know prayer is so powerful and i know he had so many people praying. first thing that happens when you see becky in the hospital? we can t help but hug each other, she is crying. she started crying immediately when i grabbed her, she said what am i going to do? what are we going to do?