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 ...

A jury Thursday evening found defendant Crosetti Brand guilty of stabbing an 11-year-old boy and seriously injuring the boy's pregnant mother in March 2024. Brand, 39, was charged with 17 counts ...

After deliberating for less than 90 minutes, the jury convicted Crosetti Brand, 39, of murder, attempted murder, home invasion and aggravated domestic battery after a more-than-three-week trial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Brand was convicted of going to his pregnant ex-girlfriend Laterria Smith's apartment in the Edgewater neighborhood in March 2024, and stabbing her in the neck. When her son, Jayden Perkins, tried ...

Crosetti Brand, a 39-year-old, was convicted of stabbing Jayden Perkins, an 11-year-old, to death and attacking his ex-girlfriend, Laterria Smith, who was pregnant at the time.

Crosetti Brand, 39, is charged with murder, attempted murder, home invasion and aggravated domestic battery, accused of killing Jayden as he tried to protect his pregnant mother, Laterria Smith.