A Texas decide has discovered Darriynn Brown, 19, the person accused of kidnapping four-year-old Dallas boy Money Gernon and stabbing him to demise final Might, incompetent to face trial.

Dallas County Justice of the Peace Choose Farrel Chapman’s resolution Friday got here after docs for each the protection and the prosecution deemed Brown incompetent, the Dallas Morning Information reports. Chapman ordered that Brown obtain therapy on the North Texas State Hospital System.

If Brown, charged with capital homicide, regains competency, he would stand trial for his alleged crimes. Heath Harris, Brown’s lawyer, asserts that his shopper is schizophrenic and suffers from further psychological issues.

Based on the Dallas Morning Information:

In Texas, defendants should be capable to perceive courtroom proceedings and assist with their very own protection. Competency to face trial is completely different from sanity on the time of the crime, though Brown’s lawyer is mounting an madness protection. An madness protection implies that attorneys admit their purchasers dedicated a criminal offense however didn’t know proper from incorrect on the time.

On Might 15 of final yr, Gernon was found useless within the 7500 block of Saddleridge Drive in Dallas. The situation of the four-year-old’s physique was roughly eight blocks from the place he and his twin brother have been staying with Monica Sherrod within the Mountain Creek neighborhood, in line with the Dallas Morning Information:

Surveillance video from Money’s bed room confirmed a person standing over him and his twin brother as they slept about 5 a.m., then choosing up Money and strolling out of the room. The person returned about 7:30 a.m. and lifted the blanket masking the opposite boy however left empty-handed after strolling across the room.

Monica Sherrod reported Money lacking about 5 hours after he was taken from the house and recognized the person within the footage as Brown, in line with an arrest-warrant affidavit. Sherrod had dated the twins’ father and was caring for them at her household’s house on Florina Parkway.

Hours later, Brown was arrested.

Authorities assert that after Brown snatched the boy from his mattress and took him to a path within the space the place he stabbed the four-year-old to demise with an unknown object. They additional allege that he subsequently positioned Gernon’s physique in the course of Saddleridge Drive, the Dallas Morning Information studies.

Authorities say that Sherrod and her teenage son each knew the defendant.

The protection argues that Brown was in a trance when he allegedly carried out the crimes, KDFW reports.

He was first charged with kidnapping and theft in connection to the killing of Gernon, according to WFAA, however after his sweatshirt, socks, and sun shades examined optimistic for the kid’s blood, he was charged with capital homicide on June 9.

Gernon’s twin is now within the care of his mom, who police say was in search of her him, the Dallas Morning Information studies. Trevor Gernon, the twins’ father, reportedly missed a courtroom look in Harris County in March and left the twins in Sherrod’s care at her household house. He was positioned right into a residential rehab program following an arrest in June.

Police filed further fees, together with housebreaking and damage fees in opposition to Brown, concerning a previous alleged incident at one other Florina Parkway house that occurred on February 8, 2021, per the Dallas Morning Information.

CBS 11 reported:

Based on the affidavit for the housebreaking cost, Brown entered a person’s house and began going by all of the rooms and closets. Choosing up a kitchen knife, the person demanded that he depart. The house owner managed to get Brown out of his house, however he got here again and began kicking and damaging an inside door between the storage and residential. The house owner opened the door and Brown reentered, punching the person within the brow, in line with the affidavit.

It was then that Brown allegedly walked into the lounge the place the person’s 2-year-old granddaughter was sleeping. He grabbed her and began carrying her towards the laundry room in the back of the home close to the storage door. Her grandfather demanded Brown let her go, however he continued with the kid towards the door. Fearing Brown would take the kid from his house, the person bodily eliminated her from his grasp, in line with the affidavit. The grandfather put the lady again on the sofa then confronted Brown within the kitchen. Brown allegedly punched the person within the face then fled out the again door.

“The grandfather then positioned the lady again on the sofa and confronted the suspect within the kitchen. Brown allegedly hit the person in his face, then exited by the again door,” Breitbart Information reported.

The house owner didn’t press fees on the time, however on Might 18 when Little one Abuse Detectives spoke with him concerning the February incident, he needed to press fees in opposition to Brown.

Source: Breitbart

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