Jchandra "Jelly" Brown Memorial
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Help me please!
I wish you could meet my sweet daughter. I’d introduce you to her and tell you “this is my daughter, Jchandra, you are going to instantly fall in love with her.” Her positive outlook on life and bubbly personality are one in a million. When people couldn’t pronounce her beautiful name she would say: “You can just call me Jelly.” When she was little she was my Jelly Bean, and as she grew up so did her nickname.
My daughter is an amazing young woman, she’s always smiling, telling crazy jokes and laughing her contagious and unforgettable laugh until everyone around her is laughing and smiling; Jchandra was as vibrant as her bright blue hair and lit up any & every room she was in. She was always willing to help anyone who needed it. She would give away her hard earned money if she felt someone needed it more. She would drop whatever she was doing to comfort a stranger which was exactly what happened when she first met a young girl, who became her friend instantly after Jchandra noticed she was having a bad day; never failing to make her smile from that day on. She was a kind and loving friend to everyone she met. So many people have told me that they instantly felt that they had known her forever, believing they would be her friend forever. On her friend’s birthday, my daughter begged me for money so she could buy something for friend, waking me up early to ensure we had time to go to the store and be extra early to school so she could give it to her. That same friend later told me “She brought me a teddy bear, flowers, and a monster [energy drink] for my birthday, she cared so much for the people she loved, even for the ones who hurt her and didn’t deserve a second chance she still gave them more chances, she always had the thought that people would change for the better one day,”
Everyone who has ever met her would agree with her friend from the Magic Valley Area, who said, “[Jchandra’s] positive outlook on life and bubbly personality made her ingrained in many of my memories. She was willing to go out of her way to help a friend, whether that be as simple as being a shoulder to cry on or as emotional as talking someone out of suicide. Jchandra always encouraged others to think outside the box and to, as she liked to say, ‘Use your brain. You were given one for a reason.’ Even if her morals did not line up with someone’s, she encouraged them to take the high road and stay true to themselves, even if it was currently the most difficult thing to do. Jchandra was not only a Champion and a Mind-Opener, but she was a Navigator in the rough waters of high school society.”
My daughter excelled at anything and everything she set her mind to. She had tried it all and seemed to have a new hobby that she was passionate about every week. She had plans for her future; her best friends were going to work together, and she had just helped one of her friends get a job with her at Wendy’s. Once they graduated from High School they were going get an apartment together because they always had so much fun they never wanted to be apart. She talked about getting married and having a family of her own. She wanted to expand on her photography and maybe be a photographer and was constantly taking pictures with my camera that she took everywhere with her. She loved cheerleading, volleyball, singing, learning, ceramics, crafts, drama and theatre, family game nights, and making friends wherever she went.
She impacted so many lives in her short time here on earth, she pushed her friends to be better, to think outside the box to solve their problems, and encouraged them to take the high road and to be the bigger person. Nearly every one of her friends have said that my daughter changed their lives for the better; she has had an impact on them and who they wanted to be. Whether they had known my daughter for what seemed like their whole life, or had just met, Jchandra was the very best friend anyone could wish for. Jchandra’s countless friends and large extended family will forever feel the absence from the pieces of their hearts Jchandra took with her.
I noticed recently in April my daughter struggled with life and, like most teens, she refused to talk about what was going on with myself or family members. I recognized the warning signs and pleaded with my daughter to let me help her; to talk to me, to tell me what was going on with her. She just replied very positively “nothing” and changed the subject. I tried researching what I could do to help her, I called help lines, I talked to doctors, police officers. I talked to family, my friends and her friends, wondering what I could do to help my daughter through whatever she wasn’t telling me. Countless times I was told there was nothing they could do; I lived in the wrong county for the help-line who claimed they could help anyone, anywhere, just to pick up the phone and call. When I found her the morning after (the first time the “monster” tried to murder her, me not knowing that till after fact) police dispatch told me they couldn’t do anything because I didn’t believe she or I was in any danger at that very moment, while we were at home with family.
Nothing could have prepared me for the reality of what came next. My beautiful daughter, who couldn’t talk to me about what was happening, had instead confided in a wolf in sheep’s clothing; who deceived her into believing he had her back, that her depression that she had always been able to work through, was unmanageable. She soon started believing this monster’s lies, convincing her that her life wasn’t worth living. The signs I interpreted as depression, that I struggled daily to find her help with, to get her to open up to me or a family member, were more serious than I could have imagined. She was pressured into using drugs, exacerbating her depression; he manipulated and deceived her, leading her to feel that her life wasn’t worth living. Text messages revealed that this epitome of evil wanted to watch someone die, and he had found just the person. Those around her admit to seeing him attempt to take her life one night by pressuring her into consuming enough drugs to do the job. When my daughter survived that night and came home to me I had no idea what had happened. Not a single person present that night with Jchandra chose to speak up and say something until it was far too late.
He would go on to send another message saying that wanted to help kill someone stating it would “be like getting away with murder.” The villain my daughter didn’t know she was fighting, knew what he was doing. He had found a victim and was making plans. On May 5, 2017 her manager at Wendy’s stated Jchandra said she wasn’t feeling well and had wanted to go home. He didn’t know she was leaving with a monster who would take her away from us. A monster who then drove her to the store where he purchased a rope, and other supplies needed to carry out his plan. He drove her up the canyon, to a researched and predetermined spot, and set his plan into irreversible motion. Sometime after that night had turned into morning, he hit record using the camera on her phone and stood by as his fatal plan to see someone die was fulfilled. My beautiful and kind daughter was manipulated by this villain’s twisted charisma into believing this was the right thing to do. As he stood by watching my daughter’s precious life leave her body he had no remorse. After checking to make sure she was gone, he left the recording next to her body, drove down the canyon, and met his friend for breakfast. After enjoying their meal they decided to go back up the canyon. This monster wanted to show off his conquest.
There he was met by police officers who had responded to a hunter’s call when he had found her lifeless body in the canyon. Police officers found a note identifying her which referred them to an 11 minute video on her phone “to answer any questions about what happened.” This arrogant monster walked up to police officers and told them he had “helped her do it” and proceeded to describe to them in detail his actions. He was arrested and taken into police custody. At the initial court appearance prosecutor Chad Grunander stated “We did not feel like a class A misdemeanor [of reckless endangerment] was sufficient for this conduct and what resulted to this young girl,” he addressed the court saying that “the allegations fit the state’s definition of murder in four ways.” This case spurred Utah legislators to pass a statue in the law that would allow monsters like this to be charged with a felony manslaughter. Even with the new statute prosecutor Chad Grunander stated “We would have still charged this “monster” with 1st degree murder”
On December 7, 2018, this murderer was sentenced to prison for Child Abuse Homicide, even though this evil monster who told his mother “they caught me and would charge murder on anyone who did what I did”, he was given the charge as a plea deal which carries a shorter prison sentence. However, no matter what the outcome, there will never be true justice; what happened can never be changed. My daughter can not be brought back, and will always be gone. She will never walk through my door smiling and laughing, she will never graduate from high school, she will never be a bridesmaid at her best friend’s wedding, she will never get to be a bride, or a mother; the only thing that would ever make this right is impossible, and for that reason I pray that this monster is never allowed to put another family through the nightmare of grief and despair Jchandra’s family has been forced to endure since she was taken away from this earth.
Will you Please consider helping with my daughter’s final expenses. My beautiful daughter has been laid to rest without a headstone and it grieves me every day to not be able to afford this expense. We have received help from so many wonderful angels and for that we are forever grateful. We only wish it were enough; final expenses have surmounted to much more than we can provide. Any additional funds we raise will be donated in her name to help other families in similar circumstances be relieved of the financial burden faced when burying a child who deserved to continue their life here on earth.
Also additional funds raised will be used for education, and legislation, to raise awareness so that we can make a difference and continue the battle to protect teens, provide advocacy, educate teens, parents, school authorities, legislation and politicians to keep this from happening to anyone, ever again. What happened to our beautiful daughter should never happen to anyone else.
I want to thank you for the time you have taken out of your busy life to meet my beautiful daughter and hear her story. I only wish you could have met her before she gained her wings. You would have instantly loved her, and she would have loved you right back.
With Love,
Sue Bryan
I wish you could meet my sweet daughter. I’d introduce you to her and tell you “this is my daughter, Jchandra, you are going to instantly fall in love with her.” Her positive outlook on life and bubbly personality are one in a million. When people couldn’t pronounce her beautiful name she would say: “You can just call me Jelly.” When she was little she was my Jelly Bean, and as she grew up so did her nickname.
My daughter is an amazing young woman, she’s always smiling, telling crazy jokes and laughing her contagious and unforgettable laugh until everyone around her is laughing and smiling; Jchandra was as vibrant as her bright blue hair and lit up any & every room she was in. She was always willing to help anyone who needed it. She would give away her hard earned money if she felt someone needed it more. She would drop whatever she was doing to comfort a stranger which was exactly what happened when she first met a young girl, who became her friend instantly after Jchandra noticed she was having a bad day; never failing to make her smile from that day on. She was a kind and loving friend to everyone she met. So many people have told me that they instantly felt that they had known her forever, believing they would be her friend forever. On her friend’s birthday, my daughter begged me for money so she could buy something for friend, waking me up early to ensure we had time to go to the store and be extra early to school so she could give it to her. That same friend later told me “She brought me a teddy bear, flowers, and a monster [energy drink] for my birthday, she cared so much for the people she loved, even for the ones who hurt her and didn’t deserve a second chance she still gave them more chances, she always had the thought that people would change for the better one day,”
Everyone who has ever met her would agree with her friend from the Magic Valley Area, who said, “[Jchandra’s] positive outlook on life and bubbly personality made her ingrained in many of my memories. She was willing to go out of her way to help a friend, whether that be as simple as being a shoulder to cry on or as emotional as talking someone out of suicide. Jchandra always encouraged others to think outside the box and to, as she liked to say, ‘Use your brain. You were given one for a reason.’ Even if her morals did not line up with someone’s, she encouraged them to take the high road and stay true to themselves, even if it was currently the most difficult thing to do. Jchandra was not only a Champion and a Mind-Opener, but she was a Navigator in the rough waters of high school society.”
My daughter excelled at anything and everything she set her mind to. She had tried it all and seemed to have a new hobby that she was passionate about every week. She had plans for her future; her best friends were going to work together, and she had just helped one of her friends get a job with her at Wendy’s. Once they graduated from High School they were going get an apartment together because they always had so much fun they never wanted to be apart. She talked about getting married and having a family of her own. She wanted to expand on her photography and maybe be a photographer and was constantly taking pictures with my camera that she took everywhere with her. She loved cheerleading, volleyball, singing, learning, ceramics, crafts, drama and theatre, family game nights, and making friends wherever she went.
She impacted so many lives in her short time here on earth, she pushed her friends to be better, to think outside the box to solve their problems, and encouraged them to take the high road and to be the bigger person. Nearly every one of her friends have said that my daughter changed their lives for the better; she has had an impact on them and who they wanted to be. Whether they had known my daughter for what seemed like their whole life, or had just met, Jchandra was the very best friend anyone could wish for. Jchandra’s countless friends and large extended family will forever feel the absence from the pieces of their hearts Jchandra took with her.
I noticed recently in April my daughter struggled with life and, like most teens, she refused to talk about what was going on with myself or family members. I recognized the warning signs and pleaded with my daughter to let me help her; to talk to me, to tell me what was going on with her. She just replied very positively “nothing” and changed the subject. I tried researching what I could do to help her, I called help lines, I talked to doctors, police officers. I talked to family, my friends and her friends, wondering what I could do to help my daughter through whatever she wasn’t telling me. Countless times I was told there was nothing they could do; I lived in the wrong county for the help-line who claimed they could help anyone, anywhere, just to pick up the phone and call. When I found her the morning after (the first time the “monster” tried to murder her, me not knowing that till after fact) police dispatch told me they couldn’t do anything because I didn’t believe she or I was in any danger at that very moment, while we were at home with family.
Nothing could have prepared me for the reality of what came next. My beautiful daughter, who couldn’t talk to me about what was happening, had instead confided in a wolf in sheep’s clothing; who deceived her into believing he had her back, that her depression that she had always been able to work through, was unmanageable. She soon started believing this monster’s lies, convincing her that her life wasn’t worth living. The signs I interpreted as depression, that I struggled daily to find her help with, to get her to open up to me or a family member, were more serious than I could have imagined. She was pressured into using drugs, exacerbating her depression; he manipulated and deceived her, leading her to feel that her life wasn’t worth living. Text messages revealed that this epitome of evil wanted to watch someone die, and he had found just the person. Those around her admit to seeing him attempt to take her life one night by pressuring her into consuming enough drugs to do the job. When my daughter survived that night and came home to me I had no idea what had happened. Not a single person present that night with Jchandra chose to speak up and say something until it was far too late.
He would go on to send another message saying that wanted to help kill someone stating it would “be like getting away with murder.” The villain my daughter didn’t know she was fighting, knew what he was doing. He had found a victim and was making plans. On May 5, 2017 her manager at Wendy’s stated Jchandra said she wasn’t feeling well and had wanted to go home. He didn’t know she was leaving with a monster who would take her away from us. A monster who then drove her to the store where he purchased a rope, and other supplies needed to carry out his plan. He drove her up the canyon, to a researched and predetermined spot, and set his plan into irreversible motion. Sometime after that night had turned into morning, he hit record using the camera on her phone and stood by as his fatal plan to see someone die was fulfilled. My beautiful and kind daughter was manipulated by this villain’s twisted charisma into believing this was the right thing to do. As he stood by watching my daughter’s precious life leave her body he had no remorse. After checking to make sure she was gone, he left the recording next to her body, drove down the canyon, and met his friend for breakfast. After enjoying their meal they decided to go back up the canyon. This monster wanted to show off his conquest.
There he was met by police officers who had responded to a hunter’s call when he had found her lifeless body in the canyon. Police officers found a note identifying her which referred them to an 11 minute video on her phone “to answer any questions about what happened.” This arrogant monster walked up to police officers and told them he had “helped her do it” and proceeded to describe to them in detail his actions. He was arrested and taken into police custody. At the initial court appearance prosecutor Chad Grunander stated “We did not feel like a class A misdemeanor [of reckless endangerment] was sufficient for this conduct and what resulted to this young girl,” he addressed the court saying that “the allegations fit the state’s definition of murder in four ways.” This case spurred Utah legislators to pass a statue in the law that would allow monsters like this to be charged with a felony manslaughter. Even with the new statute prosecutor Chad Grunander stated “We would have still charged this “monster” with 1st degree murder”
On December 7, 2018, this murderer was sentenced to prison for Child Abuse Homicide, even though this evil monster who told his mother “they caught me and would charge murder on anyone who did what I did”, he was given the charge as a plea deal which carries a shorter prison sentence. However, no matter what the outcome, there will never be true justice; what happened can never be changed. My daughter can not be brought back, and will always be gone. She will never walk through my door smiling and laughing, she will never graduate from high school, she will never be a bridesmaid at her best friend’s wedding, she will never get to be a bride, or a mother; the only thing that would ever make this right is impossible, and for that reason I pray that this monster is never allowed to put another family through the nightmare of grief and despair Jchandra’s family has been forced to endure since she was taken away from this earth.
Will you Please consider helping with my daughter’s final expenses. My beautiful daughter has been laid to rest without a headstone and it grieves me every day to not be able to afford this expense. We have received help from so many wonderful angels and for that we are forever grateful. We only wish it were enough; final expenses have surmounted to much more than we can provide. Any additional funds we raise will be donated in her name to help other families in similar circumstances be relieved of the financial burden faced when burying a child who deserved to continue their life here on earth.
Also additional funds raised will be used for education, and legislation, to raise awareness so that we can make a difference and continue the battle to protect teens, provide advocacy, educate teens, parents, school authorities, legislation and politicians to keep this from happening to anyone, ever again. What happened to our beautiful daughter should never happen to anyone else.
I want to thank you for the time you have taken out of your busy life to meet my beautiful daughter and hear her story. I only wish you could have met her before she gained her wings. You would have instantly loved her, and she would have loved you right back.
With Love,
Sue Bryan
Organizer
Sue Bryan
Organizer
Spanish Fork, UT