Law enforcement officials have yet to charge anyone with murder in the death of 4-year-old Cash Gernon, four days after his bloodied body was found in the early morning hours by a jogger passing through a Dallas, Texas, neighborhood.
One suspect – 18-year-old Darriynn Ronnell Brown – remains jailed on a $1.5 million bond since his arrest late Saturday on kidnapping and burglary charges.
Cash was asleep around 5 a.m. Saturday when a person was seen in home surveillance camera footage lifting the child out of his bed at a home in the 7500 block of Florina Parkway before carrying him away, according to an arrest affidavit.
The Dallas Morning News reported that hours after the Cash was missing, a boy's body was found in the street in a pool of blood by a passing jogger. The boy had multiple wounds from "an edged weapon," the paper, citing police, reported. He was not wearing a shirt or shoes, police said.
A police detective watched the home surveillance video identified Brown as the man who took the boy from his crib, according to the detective's arrest affidavit obtained by the Morning News. The affidavit does not detail Brown’s relationship to Cash’s family or offer any explanation for Brown taking Cash.
One suspect – 18-year-old Darriynn Ronnell Brown – remains jailed on a $1.5 million bond since his arrest late Saturday on kidnapping and burglary charges.
Cash was asleep around 5 a.m. Saturday when a person was seen in home surveillance camera footage lifting the child out of his bed at a home in the 7500 block of Florina Parkway before carrying him away, according to an arrest affidavit.
The Dallas Morning News reported that hours after the Cash was missing, a boy's body was found in the street in a pool of blood by a passing jogger. The boy had multiple wounds from "an edged weapon," the paper, citing police, reported. He was not wearing a shirt or shoes, police said.
A police detective watched the home surveillance video identified Brown as the man who took the boy from his crib, according to the detective's arrest affidavit obtained by the Morning News. The affidavit does not detail Brown’s relationship to Cash’s family or offer any explanation for Brown taking Cash.
