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A four-year-old US boy was snatched from his bed and brutally murdered in an act of “evil”, police believe. Cash Gernon had been sleeping in his crib when he was abducted and killed with an “edged weapon”, police say. Gernon’s body was inexplicably left in the street about 800 meters from his southwest Dallas home and was found by a passerby. The suspect in the murder, 18-year-old Darriynn Brown, was arrested and charged in relation to the death. Video surveillance from inside the boy’s home showed a man taking him from his crib at about 5 am. According to his...

Newly released home surveillance footage captured the shocking moments that a teen allegedly abducted a 4-year-old from his Texas bedroom — before the child was found dead in the street. The video, obtained and published by The Daily Mail, allegedly shows suspect Darriynn Brown, 18, breaking into Cash Gernon’s bedroom around 5 a.m. Saturday morning and taking the boy, who had been sleeping next to his twin brother. He appears to momentarily hesitate before picking up Cash, and leaving the room. Less than two hours later, Cash was stabbed to death with what police called an “edged weapon,” and his...