Livingston's Brendan Tevlin To Be Honored: West Orange St. Patrick's Day Parade 2016

The West Orange St. Patrick’s Day Parade will have a new honoree when it kicks off on March 13… Brendan Tevlin.

“Our parade has always been about faith, family and tradition… Brendan Tevlin exemplified those traits,” Parade Chairman Thomas Brennan wrote about the 19-year-old Livingston resident, who was murdered in West Orange in 2014.

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“Brendan was a part of our parade family,” Brennan wrote. “He participated in our parade since he was a baby; at first carried up the street and then marching as a piper. He was active with our parade committee and was always ready to assist. I believe that one day, Brendan would’ve been chairman and in the future a grand marshal. He was everything that this parade represents, and that is why at the investiture I will announce that we will put Brendan’s name ‘In Memoriam’ of our parade alongside the names of Archbishop Thomas A. Boland and Patrick Melvin.”

The 65th West Orange St. Patrick’s Day Parade will take place on Sunday, March 13, with a step-off at 12:15 p.m. at Main Street and Mt. Pleasant Avenue.

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CASE UPDATE

In July of 2015, authorities dropped charges against two West Orange men that had been implicated in Tevlin’s death.

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However, at the same time, prosecutors announced that a jury had returned a precedent-setting terrorism and murder indictment against Ali Muhammad Brown of Seattle, Washington, the first time a defendant in a murder case has been charged with terrorism under New Jersey state law.

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