Black Crimes Matter： 4 y⧸o Cash Gernon kidnapped and killed
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Four-year-old Cash Gurnan's body was found in the early morning hours by a jogger. No murder charges have been filed in the case of the boy who was abducted from his bed in May of 2021.
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hi folks i am the shameless berg hope you're doing well today so for this black crimes matter i want
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to go and look at the case of four-year-old cash gurnan uh this happened back in may of 2021 so
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i've got a couple of articles together and i'm also going to include some footage from the incident
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you know not actual violent footage but it's going to be footage from the abduction so this
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headline reads dallas four-year-old cash gurnan uh killing no murder charges filed kidnapping
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suspect held on 1.5 million dollars bond darian ronnell brown 18 held on abduction burglary
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charges after sleeping child lifted from his bed law enforcement officials have yet to charge
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anyone with murder and the death of four-year-old cash gurnan four days after his bloodied body was
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found in the early morning hours by a jogger some of you all remember the jogger meme by a jogger
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passing through a dallas texas neighborhood one suspect 18 year old darian ronnell brown remains
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jailed on a 1.5 million dollar bond since his arrest arrest late saturday on kidnapping and burglary
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charges cash was asleep around 5 a.m saturday when a person was seen in home surveillance camera
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footage lifting the child out of his bed at a home in the 7 500 block of florina parkway
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before carrying him away according to an arrest affidavit cash and his twin brother were staying
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at the home owned by their biological father's ex-girlfriend monica sherrod she had not been able to get
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into contact with the boy's father since march when he left his sons in her care court documents
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said sherrod was the one to identify brown in the surveillance footage watched together with
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investigators but the connection brown has to the family remains unclear brown and sherrod's 18 year
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old son cameron maury reportedly attended duncan duncanville high school together in the dallas fort
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worth area but it's unclear whether the two were friends maury said he viewed cash as another younger
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brother the sweetest little boy maury who lives with his mother in the same home where cash was
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staying told fox 4 dallas about the boy in their care he loved everybody the biggest smile ever he
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loved to play superheroes with us and all that isn't it always like that i mean these kids you know
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they they light up a room but they're the ones that end up having this done to them it's it's ridiculous
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maury's and brown's family homes are located within a half mile from where cash's body was found
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the dallas morning news reported maury said he had seen brown in passing just five days earlier
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just like hey you know how y'all doing you know and that was it maury told fox 4 describing the
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exchange with brown there's no reason for this what did he what he did was wrong and i don't know
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what made him think that that this is all right and this is okay this is a four-year-old kid bro like
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for what like why he was four you know what who does this to a four-year-old kid
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i got quite a few quite a few stories about who does this to four-year-old kids maury also told kx
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as tv in an on-camera interview outside the play or outside the home for what for no reason just
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because you want to be evil cash is believed to have been killed with an edged weapon police said
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no motive has been identified and police said additional charges could come against brown as
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forensic evidence is still being analyzed sherrod reported cash missing around 11 a.m saturday but cash
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is then an unidentified body had already been discovered hours earlier around 7 a.m just eight
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blocks away antoine's square said she okay antoine's square yeah she really is a jogger huh said she
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was jogging through the mountain creek area neighborhood and first thought she saw a dog
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in the street in the 7500 block saddle ridge drive as she got closer the woman realized it was the boy's
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lifeless body she found lying in a pool of blood police declined to provide any updates about the potential
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for murder charges to fox news tuesday instead referring to a blog page last updated monday at
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4 pm brown's court-appointed defense attorney robbie mcclung told fox news on tuesday that it was
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quote-unquote too soon for her to comment at this time maury's two biological underage teenage
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teenage brothers as well as cash's a twin four-year-old brother have since been removed from the
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home by child protective services kx as tv reported cash's twin brother has been reunited with their
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biological mother melinda seagroves police said seagroves and her mother and the boy's grandmother
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connie ward had been conducting a search for the twins quote-unquote for an extended amount of time
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seagroves was unaware the boy's father had placed them in sherrod's care grounds mother mimi brown told
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the dallas morning news outside her home that she believed her son had been framed as he has several
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young cousins he helps take care of and wouldn't harm he ain't did nothing darian is very kind she
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said i feel like he's being framed she said her son is a patient at metro care services which provides
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mental health care to children and adults according to the outlet i know my son is traumatized mimi brown
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added i know he's scared because i'm scared yeah uh so his death was ruled a homicide though no murder
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charges have been filed against alleged kidnapper um so yeah this headline reads dallas four-year-old
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cash gurnon's death caused by multiple stab wounds so the four-year-old boy who was kidnapped from his
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bed and whose lifeless body was found hours later on a dallas texas street died as a result of multiple
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stab wounds according to a local report the dallas county medical examiner determined cash gurnon's
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death was a homicide as a result of the wounds local news station cbs dfw reported a spokesperson
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from the medical examiner's office could not be reached by fox news on friday cash was being taken
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care of by his father's girlfriend at the time of the kidnapping police said the woman said cash's
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father had been absent since march yeah so surveillance footage from the home where the
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boy was staying shows the suspect who the woman identified as 18 year old darian brown taking cash
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from his crib and carrying him away from the camera's view according to the detective's arrest
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affidavit obtained by the dallas morning news the affidavit does not detail brown's relationship
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to cash's family or offer any explanation for brown taking cash brown is being held on charges
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of kidnapping burglary the girlfriend called police shortly before 11 a.m saturday to say cash was
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missing meanwhile police had found the boy dead around 6 50 a.m about a half mile from her home
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assistant police chief albert martinez has said it appeared the child suffered a violent death and
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that an edged weapon was used okay here we have caretaker of texas boy snatched walls sleeping has
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left bedroom untouched i know i have to confront this i haven't been able to do this until now the
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woman who cared for the toddler said so yeah so she she's just talking about how she hadn't touched
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the room since this whole incident occurred i'm wondering why we didn't hear him break in she said
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the day that he was missing i got up late and thought it was weird it was like it's 10 o'clock
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already you guys so i figured cash was still in bed cash's brother replied he went outside she said
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she then screamed cash if you're hiding from mommy it's not funny anymore come out it's time for breakfast
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he wouldn't answer as reports of a body being discovered a half mile away began to circulate
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charade said she refused to believe it was her toddler i was crying and confused and in a million
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pieces and praying they would still find cash and that that little boy wasn't cash she said
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i kept telling my daughter that's not cash the jogger who found cash anthony square told the daily
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mail she initially thought she stumbled upon a dog before taking a closer look and calling 911 he was
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only wearing a pair of bottomed shorts square said i just keep remembering those ants at the bottom
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of that baby's feet brown was an acquaintance of one of her sons and had visited the home two days
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earlier and interacted with cash which angered her she said she also disputed claims that the
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boy's biological mother had made efforts to search for them after their father disappeared
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on monday charade and her parents visited a makeshift shrine for the boy where they lay
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down a toy dinosaur it was his favorite toy he loved that toy she said he had a bunch of cars
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and put them around the dinosaur and said look mom i made a monster truck oh i hadn't actually read
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this before that was a little touching brown is being held on 1.5 million bail and faces kidnapping
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and theft charges additional charges are expected pending for forensic test results so in another
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article and i'm not going to read it here because you know there's no point getting into it um but he
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ended up being declared incompetent to stand trial of course you know real justice will it be served no
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will he be remembered no no in order in order for him to be remembered he would have to um be black be
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fully grown have a rap sheet hold a pregnant woman up at gunpoint uh use counterfeit cash swallow his
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stashes at police encounters and overdose himself under a cop's knee then then he'd be worth remembering
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but as it is he was just a boy being snatched out of his crib and just taken off and just killed for
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no reason at all and that's just not worth remembering right i hate to invoke the imagine if
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the shoe is on the other foot or if the roles were reversed you'd never hear the end of it you will
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hear george floyd over and over and over again ahmaud arbery trayvon martin george floyd say their
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names a cab and it will just never end but little boys like cash gurnan who just get you know snatched
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out of their bed while they're sleeping taken taken out and just stabbed to death yeah not even worth
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talking about i guess you know let's just make sure that we keep paying attention to all the black
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grievances let's make sure that we hyper focus on you know a handful of particular cases where
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generally speaking the person that they're grieving um it's their fault you know if they hadn't resisted
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arrest if they hadn't acted a fool if they hadn't done a bunch of dumb they'd probably
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still be alive but instead they do all that dumb they get killed then they become a
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martyr they'll be remembered and people like cash won't so we need to remember him because that's
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up i i see no reason to care about black grievances i mean you you look at this stuff even one of these
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incidents and the fact that it gets swept aside it gets memory hold while we're constantly reminded
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about george floyd george floyd it's just i don't care i don't care about black grievances and neither
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should you neither should you we have our own problems and we have lots of problems and they're
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the cause of a lot of those problems so don't let them grow beat you and shame you and act like
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everything is your fault and oh look woe is me look at george floyd woe is me ahmaud arbery
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trayvon martin what was me say their names bln blah blah blah yeah i don't give a damn about that
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shit um and it's because of stuff like this because of stuff like this so just remember that next time
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they cry their crocodile tears and you feel tempted to give a damn just don't don't because they don't
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give a damn society collectively doesn't give a damn about what happens to our people what happens
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to our children so if the world's gonna forget them we're not okay let's remember him take a moment
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remember him remember all the other children that are being taken from us by them
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and they're being hushed hushed and not talked about and not constantly thrown in your face
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statues are not erected in their honor there are not murals there are not rallies and marches there are
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not burning cities there's not moral outrage you don't have powers and dignitaries all over the
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world on tv vomiting out their sympathies no one cares just no one cares so we have to care no one
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cares about cash just like non-whites don't care about whites in general no one cares nobody's gonna
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be there for us nobody's gonna be there for people like cash if it's not for us nobody's gonna be there
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for us if we don't stand up for ourselves and we're gonna have to we're gonna have to because this is
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happening to our children and you don't hear a peep we all forget like it just doesn't matter well folks
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i appreciate your support i appreciate you listening in you guys take care