Morgan Patten

On November 8, 2019, Morgan traveled for more than 13 hours to spend the weekend with her fiancé, Phil Brandon, who had been away from home for 5 months, training to become a United States Marine. After arriving in Jacksonville, NC, Morgan walked across her hotel’s parking lot to a neighboring Applebees Restaurant. A few hours later, and before meeting with her Marine, she was killed in a single vehicle, 93mph crash, on a desolate dead end road, miles from Applebees. The two male strangers ( both serving with 2nd Marine Law Enforcement, and both intoxicated at the time of the crash) have never stated where they were going or why, nor have they explained the gun found in the wreckage. NC law enforcement wrote it off as “an unfortunate dui fatality”, and the Marine Corps administratively separated the two without a proper investigation, in fact, one is currently a law enforcement officer! Morgan’s story is not over; visit morgansmilestogo.com to learn more.