Brian Deneke
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Brian Deneke (March 9, 1978 – December 12, 1997) was an American punk icon from Amarillo, Texas, USA, who became well-known after his untimely murder in 1997, at the age of 19.
Deneke had a spiked mohawk haircut and often wore a black leather jacket with a studded leather collar. He attended Amarillo High School and would later obtain his GED. Deneke also contributed with Stanley Marsh 3's art project, Dynamite Museum, which consisted of handmade mock road signs that were scattered across the city. Deneke is also famously remembered in Ethan Daniel Davidson's 1997 folk song "Brian Deneke."
Deneke was killed in a violent hit and run incident in the Western Plaza Shopping Center parking lot stemming from a fight outside of an International House of Pancakes in Amarillo, Texas on December 12, 1997. His death was immediately met with great anger from the punk subculture since it is widely believed that the events of that fateful night were due to the fact that he was killed solely for being a punk, i.e. a hate crime. The case had also gained controversy because the murderer, Dustin Camp, received 10 years probation for the murder. Camp violated his terms of probation in 2001 and was sentenced to eight years in prison.
On July 31, 2006 Dustin Camp was released from prison and told to live in El Paso.
[edit] References
- Kris Kelly. "Camp indicted in Deneke death", Amarillo Globe-News, February 5, 1998.
- Kevin Welch. "David Camp pleads guilty", Amarillo Globe-News, October 19, 2001.
