After a weeks-long, often disorderly trial, jurors deliberated for just an hour and 20 minutes before finding Brand guilty of attacking his ex-partner and killing her son. The 2024 slaying exposed ...

The murder of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins has become an example of how domestic violence victims and their families are left ...

Trial of Crosetti Brand on 11-year-old boy's murder headed to jury 02:57. Meantime, Brand was granted parole on March 12, the day before he allegedly stabbed Smith and her son – hours before a ...

A Cook County jury convicted the man charged with stabbing and killing an 11-year-old boy and seriously hurting his pregnant ...

A jury reached a guilty verdict for Crosetti Brand after deliberations began Thursday. He was accused killing 11-year-old Jayden Perkins and injuring his pregnant mom in Edgewater.

Prosecutors opened their case against Crosetti Brand for the high-profile knife slaying of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins, Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 76°F.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new law Friday to make a series of changes to the Prisoner Review Board after it released a man who ...

Brand is charged with murder, attempted murder, home invasion and aggravated domestic battery in a March 13, 2024 attack that killed 11-year-old Jayden Perkins and seriously injured his pregnant mo… ...

Crosetti Brand, 37, held firm in his decision even after Judge Mary Marubio gave him a stern warning “everyone pretty much universally agrees that it’s a bad idea to represent yourself.” ...

The suspected attacker, identified as 37-year-old Crosetti Brand, was released on parole just one day before the attack, which happened in the 5900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue in Edgewater ...

A jury has found Crosetti Brand guilty of stabbing his ex-partner and killing her 11-year-old son. At 4-foot-2 and 99 pounds, 11-year-old Jayden Perkins fought bravely to protect his mother from ...