Black Man Snatches Baby From Bed and Stabs Him to Death in Texas

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Black teen snatches toddler from bed and stabs him to death in Texas

An African American teenager abducted a four-year-old boy from his bed and stabbed him to death, according to authorities in Texas.

A jogger found the slain body of Cash Gernon in the city’s Mountain Creek neighborhood at around 7am Saturday, Assistant Police Chief Albert Martinez announced on Tuesday, adding that it appeared the child suffered a brutally violent death from an ‘edged weapon’.  

Darriynn Brown, 18, was arrested in the case hours later and was charged with kidnapping and theft. Police said they also anticipate murder charges pending the results of a forensic analysis.

Dailymail.co.uk reports: Cash was identified by a woman claiming to be his mother, who told WFAA that Brown had broken into her home through a back door early Saturday morning and snatched the ‘happy-go-lucky’ child while he was sleeping. 

The woman, who was not named and spoke to the outlet off-camera, claimed the boy was unknown to Brown and said she had no idea what led the man to target him. 

Dallas police issued an update on Monday afternoon which claimed that a woman named Monica Sherrod had been misidentified by the media as Cash’s mom. It’s unclear whether Sherrod is the woman who spoke to WFAA.   

‘Cash was left in the care of Ms. Sherrod by his father unbeknownst to his biological mother, Ms. Melinda Seagroves,’ the release said. 

‘According to Ms. Sherrod, she has not been able to contact the father since his departure from her residence in March 2021.’  

The release further explained that Seagroves – the biological mother of Cash and his twin brother – ‘has been conducting an extensive search for her sons for an extended amount of time’. 

Police said Cash’s twin has since been reunited with Seagroves.  

The woman who identified herself as Cash’s mother had told WFAA that the twin was in state custody. 

She said the kidnapping was captured on surveillance video and investigators reportedly asked neighbors for any additional footage that could help shed light on what happened.  

Antwainese Square, 39, told The Dallas Morning News she called police after seeing Cash’s body on the 7500 block of Saddleridge Road just before 7am while she was out for a run. 

She said the boy’s face and upper half of his body were covered in blood and that he didn’t have shoes or a shirt. 

‘It breaks my heart,’ Square told the newspaper. ‘And now I’m afraid. Now I’m paranoid. Because I don’t know what happened, I don’t know what’s going on.

‘I mean just knowing that someone out there is capable of killing a child, that alone is just unsettling.’ 

Martinez, the assistant police chief, said it’s believed Cash was killed at about 5am and that he lived in the neighborhood where his body was found. 

The boy appeared to have suffered multiple stab wounds. 

‘We are shocked, we are very angry about what has happened to this small child,’ Martinez said.   

Some residents told WFAA that Brown was regularly seen in the Mountain Creek area where Cash was killed. Court records showed he lived with his parents about a half-mile from the crime scene.  

Neighbor Jose Ramirez called the slaying ‘hard to believe’ and said: ‘I don’t think [Brown] was in his right mind.’ 

By midafternoon Saturday, FBI agents were focusing on a wooded trail not far from where the body was found and police were on horseback in the area.

The trail, which neighbors said is popular for biking, was sealed off with crime-scene tape.

‘They were back in the alley, looking through trash containers to see if they could find any type of evidence,’ Ramirez said. ‘They went down the street, and they spent a good time down there.’

Another neighbor, Katie Guillen, spoke to the outlet when she stopped by a makeshift memorial at the site where Cash’s body was found to drop off flowers.  

‘It’s just so sad that someone woke up this morning and lost their child without a warning,’ Guillen said. 

‘How do you throw away someone’s body like he’s nothing? He’s someone’s kid.’

Brown was being held Monday in Dallas County jail on $750,000 bond. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney.   

At the time of his arrest late Sunday night Brown was wearing an ankle monitor stemming from a prior charge for evading arrest in late April, according to the Dallas Morning News.  

5 Comments

  1. Its all these weirdo drug fu**ed patents who raise their babies in rooms full of pot and their sperm and eggs are drug damaged and the kids get names like darryin krystle , cash daemien chylee and all that style of unique spelling that makes you wonder if they are t totally narcissistic since the idea anyone else might bit know how to spell the name that way doesnt even occur to them Theres no hope really for the generations born from about 1980 onwards And rbey rhink theyre the normal ones Some few whose parents didnt conceive them on ecstasy speed crack pot and alcohol still are .

  2. All you black sub-apes do not have to worry, this black not human creature will never be charged with a hate crime.

  3. Sickening. The violence gene is real and prevelant in African americans. It explains a lot.

    • Sorry It was the English who slaughtered millions if Africans when tbe made 80 % of Africa ” theirs ” The Africans will never be able to match that score And it was the english who killed millions ,yes millions more when they ran the slave trade ,where an estimated 10 million were hunted down chained ip.and transported in irons to Jama8ca mainly to die working in the sugar plantations for E gland and the rest mostly to america to work in the cotton fields .About 2 million are believed to have died during ” processing ” .And then millions more were killed by the WHO using the same dirty damaged needles over and over until they broke giving the Africans the aids ” vaccine ” .Englands killed most likely about 40 or 50 million africans More than tbe entire population of England Whose got the hate gene again ? And they say ,were not racist No no no .

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