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McCloskey's parents plead for information
The parents of the deceased Virginia Tech student are offering a $10,000 award for the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for the injuries to their son
The last time Joe McCloskey, father of deceased Tech student Brian McCloskey, made the trip to Blacksburg, it was merely days after he and his son took in the Washington Redskins’ romp over the San Francisco 49ers at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Yesterday, he and Brian McCloskey’s mother, Dawn Powell, returned to hold a news conference at the Blacksburg Police Department concerning the on-going investigation into the death of their son...
To police knowledge, there were two parties in the area that night. Brian McCloskey reportedly had visited one, a birthday party, but toxicology information as to whether the victim had consumed alcohol has yet to be returned to the police force.
Introducing a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the injuries to her son, Powell asked for the community to intensify its efforts in determining what exactly transpired before her son was found at 2 a.m. in the 1400 block of Christine Court with multiple blunt-force injuries that would take his life five days later.
“Despite all the support we have received, today we are asking the community again for help; we are a family deeply grieving the loss of a wonderful, young man,” Powell said.
Both parents expressed the need for whoever may possess information to contact the police — no matter how innocuous the tip may seem — in order to bring closure to their situation.
“(The reward will) hopefully generate somebody coming forward. What we are looking for is to help bring closure. We want to focus on Brian’s life, not his death. 19-year-olds are full of life, and they’ll know what we’re looking for,” Joe McCloskey said...
Brian McCloskey, whose two older sisters attended Tech, was thoroughly enjoying his time at Tech and was especially looking forward to Tech’s then-upcoming football game against Miami, Joe McCloskey said.
He changed his career path “two dozen” times in high school, Joe McCloskey said, eventually taking after Powell’s mother when he found an abrupt and surprising love of horticulture. Both parents expressed that Brian’s most distinguishing characteristics were his pure “love of life” and an indomitable sense of humor.
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