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Cash Gernon<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Cash Gernon was a lovely 4-year-old with ginger hair, the son of Trevor Gernon and Melinda Seagroves. Cash had a twin brother named Carter, as lovely as him. Cash loved superheroes; he particularly liked to mimic Iron man. Cash was described as an outgoing kid, always smiling,<\/p>\n

Cash’s parents Trevor and Melinda separated sometime in 2020 and Trevor kept custody of both toddlers. He moved to Dallas, Texas, with them and would eventually meet Monica Sherrod; who he started dating at some point. Trevor and Monica moved in together; so Cash lived with his dad, brother, Monica, and her four kids on the 7500 block of Florina Parkway, at Mountain Creek, Dallas County.<\/p>\n

In March 2021, Cash\u2019s father Trevor left Texas in his attempt to escape being arrested for felony drug possession charges. He later claimed he left his two kids with Monice because he didn\u2019t want to disturb their routine. Cash and Carter had gotten used to living in that house, in that town with Monica and her children. Also, he believed it would have been irresponsible of him to take them with him while on the run.<\/p>\n

From then on, Monica became their caretaker. Cash and Carter had a room for themselves with a crib in which both of them slept together. Monica always had a baby monitor camera in their room.<\/p>\n

Morning of May 15 on 7500 block Saddleridge Drive<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On the morning of May 16, around 7:00 am a mountain Creek woman named Antwainese Square is out starting her day jogging in the 7500 block in the Mountain Creek area, Dallas. She sees something bloody at the side of the road; at first, she thinks it\u2019s a dog, but as she gets closer to the scene, she sees two little hands and two little feet. It was a boy. He had no shirt on, no shoes, and he was covered in blood from his upper body all the way up to his face.<\/p>\n

She also noticed the little kid\u2019s feet were covered in ants. She starts screaming and crying for help and calls 911 around 7:00 am. Police arrived immediately, but they can\u2019t recognize who the boy was. There were no reports of missing kids or anything. They start knocking door by door, asking everybody if any of their kids are missing\u2026 but nothing.<\/p>\n

Morning of May 15 at Monica Sherrod’s House<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The morning of May 15, 2021, was supposed to be like any other night; Monica and the kids were asleep, nothing out of the ordinary. Around 10 am that day, Monica wakes up and discovers that Cash Gernon is not there. Little twin Carter tells her Cash wasn\u2019t there when he woke up. So she starts looking for him all over the house, calling out his name, asking him to please stop hiding and get ready for breakfast, and saying that the game wasn\u2019t funny anymore. But Cash wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

Finally, around 11:00 am, Monica dialed 911, intending to report him missing. Police get to her house immediately and start questioning her. Maybe because they saw pictures of Cash or because they saw his twin, police were able to connect Cash\u2019s disappearance with the little boy found murdered 8 blocks away. Yes, little Cash Gernon had been killed.<\/p>\n

The Crime
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Cash Gernon was taken from his own crib in the early morning of May 15, 2021. Darriynn Brown kidnapped, beat, and brutally stabbed little Cash to death. The weapon used has only been described as “an edged weapon.” The reasons for this horrible attack are still unknown.<\/p>\n

Darriynn Brown<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Darriynn Brown was not a stranger to the Sherrod family. Kamron Mori, Monica Sherrod’s 18 years-old-kid,\u00a0said he knew Brown from Duncanville High School and middle school. He said they had been friends before.<\/p>\n

18-year-old Darriynn Brown was popular in the neighborhood but not for good reasons; he was known to be a weird and problematic person; several neighbors said they\u2019d previously reported Brown to police for bizarre or suspicious behavior like wandering around their houses very late at night, vandalizing their vehicles and in some cases even threatening some their lives.<\/p>\n

Cash Gernon’s Murder Investigation
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Police started questioning Monica and her children, and after a while of trying to find out who would want to hurt Cash and why the kids reminded Monica about the baby monitor she keeps in the twin\u2019s bedroom. So she gives the camera to the policemen. While they are going through the surveillance footage, they realize they had caught Cash\u2019s kidnapper on the video.<\/p>\n

They saw how at 4:58 am, a man entered the kids\u2019 bedroom and just stood there looking at them. He moves closer to the crib, hovering over Cash. He then pulls the blanket off Cash, picks him up, and leaves with him. What horrified the police and Monica was that they continued watching the footage and saw the same man at 7:30 am returning to the bedroom. Again he is hovering over Carter. He acts strange and nervous, as if trying to make a decision. He then tries to pick Carter up, but apparently, something he hears stops him, and he leaves the house alone.<\/p>\n

Darriynn Brown caught on baby monitor video<\/h3>\n

Monica recognized the man in the footage. It was 18-year\u2013old Darriynn Brown, an acquaintance of Monica\u2019s older son, Kamron Mori. She also recalled that Brown had visited her family\u2019s home a few days before the homicide and that he\u2019d interacted with Cash. That made her angry and told him to stay away from her kids.<\/p>\n

Later that day, police went to Darriynn Brown\u2019s residence where he lived with his parents. By 10:00 pm that night, Brown was taken to the law enforcement wing of the Dallas Children\u2019s Advocacy Center for an interview before he was booked into jail. Police also collected a hoodie, shoes, and sunglasses to be examined. Those items seemed to be the ones he was wearing when captured in the video kidnapping Cash Gernon.<\/p>\n