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Al Brady
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| Born |
Alfred James Brady
October 25, 1910 |
| Died | October 12, 1937 (aged 26) Bangor, Maine, U.S.
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| Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
| Resting place | Mount Hope Cemetery Bangor, Maine |
Alfred James "Al" Brady (October 25, 1910 – October 12, 1937) was an Indiana-born criminal who became one of the FBI's "Public Enemies" in the 1930s. He and an accomplice were killed in an ambush by FBI agents in downtown Bangor, Maine, in 1937. The spectacular public gun-battle that led to the demise of "The Brady Gang" is an essential part of Maine history, and was even the subject of a re-enactment in 2007.
Al Brady lost his father at age 2, his mother at age 16 and his stepfather at age 18. With no living relatives, Brady's body went unclaimed, and he was buried in an unmarked grave at Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor. In 2007 the grave was finally marked with a stone and a brief religious ceremony conducted, in conjunction with a re-enactment of the shoot-out in Bangor's downtown.
Depiction in literature
The murder of fictional gangster Al Bradley in Derry, Maine, in Stephen King's novel It is a fictionalized account of the gun-battle that took place in Bangor.
