Three Aryan Brotherhood Members Sentenced in Killing

LONGVIEW — Three East Texas members of the white supremacist prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas have been sentenced in the 2011 kidnapping and death of a fellow gang member from Longview. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report Brian Thomas Green, 45, of Mount Pleasant; Kalvin Kyle McCown, 44, of Longview; and Travis Lee Hill, 28, of Ore City were given prison sentences without parole for their roles in the murder of Kenneth Earl Ayres, 48. Ayres’s last known address was Longview, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Oklahoma reported.

Green was sentenced this past week to 25 years in prison and five years of supervised release. McCown, also this past week, was given 20 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Hill was sentenced in September to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release. In July 2011, Ayres (keft) violated the gang’s rules by stealing guns from a shed at McCown’s residence in Longview, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. McCown, along with Hill and Green, beat Ayres, shot him in the hand and foot and drove him to rural southern Oklahoma, where he was shot in the head, according to court documents.