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The family said Brown and Brooks took their 8-month-old baby and a 14-year-old niece out for food Saturday morning. Dekalb County detectives believe a man and woman kidnapped, handcuffed and shot Saturday were targeted and knew the men who abducted them.Īuthorities say Jeronta Brown and his fiance, Briana Brooks, were kidnapped early Saturday morning and found a few hours later handcuffed and shot in the head.Ī police spokesperson said the department called in three off-duty detectives over the holiday weekend to help with the case and had already contacted Atlanta police before the two were found. "Please verify the source before donating," suggested police.Watch Video: Kidnapped couple found handcuffed, shot in headĭECATUR, Ga. Police also want to caution the public that fraudulent GoFundMe accounts had been set up with the family as benefactors. Moori said his two teen brothers were removed from the house and were taken to their grandmother’s home.ĭallas police on Monday clarified online rumors suggesting Moori’s mother is the twins’ biological mother, which is not the case. Dallas police said Monday afternoon that Gernon's twin had been returned to his biological mother who had been searching for her sons for "an extended amount of time." Gernon’s twin brother, Moori said, was removed from the home by CPS. Brown, he said, is his younger brother’s friend and is known for walking around the neighborhood. Moori told NBC 5 he went to Duncanville High School with the suspect, but that they are not friends. “He loved to play superheroes,” said an emotional Moori, of Gernon. With many unanswered questions, one thing for certain: The loss of the young man is senseless. It’s not from revenge, not from hate, not from none of that.”

While a motive has not been determined or confirmed by police, Moori insisted the attack was random and that drugs were not involved. Who does this to a 4-year-old kid? For what? For what reason? Because you want to be evil?”ĭallas police arrested Darriynn Brown Saturday night in connection to the death of a young boy who was found with multiple wounds earlier in the day in the Mountain Creek neighborhood in Dallas. “He was the sweetest boy ever,” said Kamron Moori. Kamron Moori, who lives at the home from where police said the boy was kidnapped, said he's as hurt as he is confused by what's taken place.
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McClung told NBC 5 Monday afternoon she had not yet met with her client and had no update to share. Attorney Robbie McClung said she was assigned by a judge to the case Monday. Detectives anticipate more charges will follow but are awaiting the results of forensic analysis.Īs of this writing, Brown has not been charged with any other crime. Brown was taken into custody and charged with kidnapping and theft. That man was identified by Dallas police as 18-year-old Darriynn Brown on Sunday. A woman who lived at the home reportedly identified the man to police and he was later arrested.

The boy's twin brother was not taken or harmed. Video surveillance from inside the boy's home showed a man taking him from his crib at about 5 a.m.

Gernon was sleeping in his crib when he was abducted and killed early Saturday with what police described as an "edged weapon." Gernon's body was inexplicably left in the street about a half-mile from his southwest Dallas home and was found by a passerby. A 4-year-old boy who was kidnapped from his crib Saturday morning and brutally murdered has been identified by the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office as Cash Gernon.
