The boy was found close to death at the apartment of the two men, who police described as homosexual lovers . According to the affidavit, Brown told police that on the morning of September 26, he snuck up on the boy, tied his hands behind his back, placed his pair of undershorts in the teen s mouth and secured the briefs with a bandanna and duct tape. He said he blindfolded the youth, bound him to a bed and repeatedly sodomized him while Carpenter watched. Investigators said they found notes from Carpenter to Brown, instructing him on how to bind and sedate a child. A preliminary autopsy showed that the boy died from positional asphyxiation.
Police say the boy was sodomized with several objects.