Brad Snider

Background

Brad Snider was a member of Michael Townley and Trevor Philips's heist crew in the years before Grand Theft Auto V. He met Trevor first and joined the team that robbed banks and armored cars with Michael and planner Lester Crest. He was never especially liked by Michael or Lester, but he was a reliable gunman and remained part of the crew into the 2000s.

Events of Grand Theft Auto V

Brad appears in the Prologue, the 2004 robbery of a cash depot in Ludendorff, North Yankton. The job goes wrong almost immediately. Trevor kills a guard, police descend on the area and the getaway driver is killed. As the crew flees on foot, FIB agent Dave Norton opens fire from cover. He is aiming at Trevor, but Brad steps into the line of fire and is hit. Trevor escapes; Michael is "shot" as part of his secret deal with the FIB.

The Ludendorff job itself was small by the crew's standards; Michael and Trevor took just under $180,000 from the vault. In his supposed letters from prison, Brad claims he has been denied visitors, which explains why Trevor never sees him.

Officially, Brad was sent to prison with a long sentence. For the next nine years Trevor writes him letters and receives replies, believing his friend is locked away. In reality Brad died from his wounds and was buried in the grave marked for Michael, whose death had been faked.

The truth comes out in Bury the Hatchet. Trevor's suspicions grow after hearing Michael's lies, and he flies to Ludendorff to check. He digs up "Michael's" grave and finds Brad's body. The discovery shatters what is left of his trust in Michael and drives the bitter split that runs through the last part of the story. After The Third Way, Dave admits by email that he wrote the letters in Brad's name.

Personality

The little that is shown of Brad suggests a tough, brash and not especially bright criminal who was loyal to Trevor.

Michael and Lester regarded him as a liability, but Trevor considered him a true friend.

Relationships

• Trevor Philips: his closest friend in the crew, who never stopped writing to him.
• Michael De Santa: a crewmate who let Brad's death become part of his own cover story.
• Dave Norton: the agent whose bullet killed him.

Trivia

• Brad's death is the secret at the center of the falling-out between Michael and Trevor.
• His letters are one of the clues that keep Trevor in the dark for nearly a decade.