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Driver clips his brother with car, witnesses say
By MOLLY MOORHEAD LAND O'LAKES -- Bonnie and Robert Cameron were heading up U.S. 41 on Wednesday afternoon when they saw something they had trouble comprehending -- especially on Christmas Day. A car driving ahead of them veered off the road and struck a man standing on the shoulder, sending him flying onto the hood of the car that hit him, into the windshield and back onto the ground. "It's so stunning," Bonnie Cameron, 58, told the Times on Thursday. "You don't believe it." And perhaps more stunning is the fact that the men involved in the incident are brothers. Now one of them is hospitalized in a coma while the other sits in jail facing charges of attempted murder. Dewayne Browning, 24, told Pasco sheriff's deputies he and his brother Brian, 23, had been arguing for a couple of hours over use of the car. They got into a fist fight in the yard of 6216 Land O'Lakes Blvd., where they live with their mother. According to the Sheriff's Office report, Brian Browning walked away, going up the sloping yard to U.S. 41 as Dewayne Browning got into his 1991 Ford Thunderbird. Dewayne Browning told deputies he pulled onto the highway and saw his brother motioning to him, as if daring Dewayne to hit him. Dewayne drove toward him at about 25 mph, and Brian jumped out of the way at the last second, but the car "clipped him," the report said. Dewayne Browning told deputies he never intended to hit his brother. The Camerons called 911 on a cell phone. Several neighbors came out to attend to Brian Browning, who was taken by helicopter to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa. Burman "Dewayne" Browning, a pool installer, remained in the Pasco County jail at Land O'Lakes without bail Thursday. His brother, Brian Keith Browning, was in critical condition at St. Joseph's, a hospital spokeswoman said. According to the Sheriff's Office report, Brian Browning had bleeding in his brain and was in a coma.
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