HOUSTON – The family of 57-year-old Herman Ray Browning, Jr. was grieving Sunday after he died during a robbery at a restaurant in Southwest Houston.
"I'm kind of lost right now. I just don't have my big brother anymore," said Browning's sister, Geneva Browning.
"There is no better man that I know, other than my dad who passed on already, but they don't make them like that anymore," said Geneva Browning.
It's not only family members who looked up to him. It was friends like Tommy Wade.
"A good man, you can't get a better man. I've never, never walked beside a better man," said Wade.
David Caddle was Browning's coworker.
"He would do anything for anybody. He's one of the good guys," said Caddle.
Browning was inside the Huong Giang Hue Restaurant with his wife and 8-year-old son Friday night when police said two armed men wearing masks tried to rob the restaurant and everyone inside. They said Browning fought back and they shot him.
His family watched it all.
"He would have not done that unless he felt he had to, (because) he would not have left his wife and his son for anything," said Geneva Browning.
Browning was also a Marine and a longtime employee of Phonoscope Communications.
While his family remembered the good times, they hoped his killers realized the devastation they've caused.
"You took a really good man out of this world for no reason. You've destroyed the world of a family," said Geneva Browning.
The family set up a GoFundMe account to help Browning's wife and young son. Click here to donate.
