DARRIYNN Brown, the teenager suspected of “killing” Cash Gernon, has said he is not the kidnapper caught on security footage snatching the boy from his crib.
Brown, 18, is alleged to have snatched the four-year-old boy from his Dallas, Texas, bedroom as he slept next to his twin brother on the morning of May 15.
The child was later found dead in the street, covered in blood, a mile away from his home, police said.
Home surveillance footage showed the suspect, later identified as Brown, standing over the twins before he carried him away, court documents say.
Brown’s defense attorney Heath Harris though has said cops have the wrong guy and his client did not break into the home, kidnap the boy or kill Cash.
“This is not an open and shut case. Even if you believe that’s [Brown] on the video, it doesn’t mean he killed the kid,” Harris told The Dallas Morning News. “The world is basically prejudicing this whole community by saying, ‘That’s him.'”
Harris is yet to receive the security tape from law enforcement, the paper reported.
He also claimed it will be proven that Brown has a mental disorder.
Brown is currently facing charges of kidnapping and burglary, but investigators expect to file a capital murder charge after a forensic analysis has been carried out, the report said.
The four-year-old was found stabbed to death and dumped on the street by a jogger on a residential street early Saturday morning in the Mountain Creek area of Dallas, Texas.
The Dallas Medical Examiner revealed that Cash had died of multiple stab wounds.
Police said that his wounds appeared to have been afflicted by an "edged weapon".
Cash's father's girlfriend, Monica Sherrod, identified Cash and said that he was asleep when the suspect broke in and kidnapped him at 5am local time.
She also told the Daily Mail that Brown was known to the family as the brother of her older sons' friend.
Cash's biological mother believed that the little boy and his twin brother, Carter, were with their dad and did not know that they were left with Sherrod, a police spokesperson said.
Officers found the boy when they responded to a 911 call at about 7am Saturday, according to police spokesman Albert Martinez.
“We are shocked, we are very angry about what has happened to this small child,” Martinez said, describing the boy’s death as “violent."
Antwainese Square, 39, said she was jogging at about 6.30am when she saw what she thought was a dog lying in the road but when she got closer she saw the boy’s arms and legs.
“That’s when I noticed the baby had ants at the bottom of his feet so I knew he was deceased then,” Square said. “It was heart-wrenching because this baby could have been no more than five.”
Having called 911 she told the operator she could see blood on the boy’s face and the upper half of his body.
She added he wasn’t wearing shoes or a shirt.
“As a mother, this just – it breaks my heart,” she said. “It breaks my heart. And now I’m afraid. Now I’m paranoid. Because I don’t know what happened, I don’t know what’s going on.”
Brown was caught on a neighbor’s ring camera lurking around the property more than 10 weeks before the abduction, according to a report by The Daily Beast.
The teenager is currently being held on a $1.6million bond.
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