Garrison Brown’s last text messages have been revealed in a new police report detailing what happened on March 4 and 5, 2024.
Janelle spoke to police about what happened leading up to the tragic events earlier this week, and what she revealed is both shocking and devastating.
First, she revealed that Garrison sent text messages to a group of people who the family works with, assumedly the Sister Wives production team, and Janelle thought they were alarming.
Janelle was not in the group to receive the messages, but someone who was in the group sent them to her. Janelle told police that one message read, “I want to hate you for sharing the good times. But I can’t. I miss these days.”
Janelle Asked Her Kids to Check on Garrison
After Janelle was made aware of the text, she texted Garrison herself. Allegedly, they had a text conversation back and forth for five minutes until Garrison stopped responding at 8:39 pm. It’s not clear what their text conversation entailed. At that point, Janelle texted her children and asked who could go to his house and check on him.
Gabe volunteered, and it was the next morning that he discovered Garrison deceased. It was not made clear previously that Gabe seems to no longer live at Garrison’s house. In the most recent season of Sister Wives, Gabe and Garrison were living together as roommates in the house that Garrison owned.
But in the police report, it was revealed that Garrison had at least three roommates — none of whom were Gabe — and they were all interviewed.
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Some said that they heard a pop on Monday night, but they didn’t believe it sounded like a gunshot. Because of that, no one checked on him. It wasn’t until the next morning that Gabe went to check on his brother and discovered what happened.
In the report, it was revealed that Gabe was visibly distraught when talking to police. Gabe explained what happened when he discovered him, saying that Garrison’s bedroom door was closed.
Gabe went to grab the key to the bedroom, because Garrison typically locked his door, and instead discovered that the door was unlocked.
Gabe Tragically Discovered Garrison
Gabe entered the bedroom and saw Garrison sitting upright in bed with what appeared to be a bloody nose. He said that he tried to wake him up before discovering his injuries and the weapon in his lap. In the police report, both Gabe and his roommates also revealed that Garrison struggled with alcohol.
This isn’t something that had previously been discussed on Sister Wives, especially because alcohol has notoriously been taboo amongst the Sister Wives family.
According to one of his roommates, Garrison revealed his issues to alcohol with him recently and told him that he planned to stop drinking this month, but he did not appear intoxicated when they last spoke.
In Gabe’s statement to the police, he said that he had no idea that Garrison was struggling. He said that he had recently started a new job in the medical field and seemed to be doing alright. His roommates explained that he was going to school to become “some kind of nurse.”
As we reported previously, Garrison had just adopted a third cat a few days prior. Whether or not this was a planned and premeditated incident remains to be seen. It’s also still unclear if a note was left behind.
And as for Kody, it seems that Janelle has confirmed that he and Garrison were still estranged at the time of his passing. In the police report, she specifically told police about the estrangement.
She also revealed her own regrets, saying that she wished she had gotten her son help in the past before this happened.
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