Overview

• Brown, 22, admitted to murder in Dallas on the day his capital trial was set to begin.
• He received a life sentence following the guilty plea.
• Police had accused him of abducting the sleeping child in 2021, with DNA and baby-camera video cited in an arrest affidavit.
• Cash Gernon was found stabbed to death in South Dallas in May 2021 after a jogger discovered his body.
• Brown spent years in a state hospital before a judge declared him competent to stand trial in January.