Shameless Sperg - Black Crimes Matter： 4 y⧸o Cash Gernon murder

00:00:00.000 Hi folks, I am the Shameless Berg.

00:00:01.980 Hope you're doing well today.

00:00:03.280 So for this Black Crimes Matter, 1.00

00:00:06.180 I wanna go and look at the case of four-year-old Cash Gurnon.

00:00:09.900 This happened back in May of 2021.

00:00:13.640 So I've got a couple of articles together

00:00:15.200 and I'm also going to include some footage from the incident.

00:00:18.020 You know, not actual violent footage,

00:00:19.640 but it's gonna be footage from the abduction.

00:00:22.420 So this headline reads,

00:00:23.740 Dallas four-year-old Cash Gurnon killing.

00:00:26.900 No murder charges filed.

00:00:28.320 A child kidnapping suspect held on $1.5 million bond.

00:00:32.000 Darian Ronald Brown, 18, held on abduction.

00:00:35.920 Burglary charges after a sleeping child lifted from his bed.

00:00:38.680 Law enforcement officials have yet to charge anyone with murder

00:00:41.340 in the death of four-year-old Cash Gurnon

00:00:43.480 four days after his bloodied body

00:00:45.200 was found in the early morning hours by a jogger.

00:00:48.080 Some of you all remember the jogger meme.

00:00:50.420 By a jogger passing through a Dallas, Texas neighborhood.

00:00:53.360 One suspect, 18-year-old Darian Ronald Brown,

00:00:56.940 remains jailed on a $1.5 million bond

00:00:59.740 since his arrest late Saturday on kidnapping and burglary charges.

00:01:03.940 Cash was asleep around 5 a.m. Saturday

00:01:06.280 when a person was seen in home surveillance camera footage

00:01:09.120 lifting the child out of his bed at a home

00:01:11.120 in the 7,500 block of Florina Parkway

00:01:14.180 before carrying him away, according to an arrest affidavit.

00:01:17.740 Cash and his twin brother were staying at the home

00:01:20.220 owned by their biological father's ex-girlfriend, Monica Sherrod.

00:01:23.700 She had not been able to get into contact with the boy's father since March

00:01:27.220 when he left his sons in her care.

00:01:29.400 Court documents said Sherrod was the one to identify Brown

00:01:32.340 in the surveillance footage watched together with investigators,

00:01:35.920 but the connection Brown has to the family remains unclear.

00:01:39.080 Brown and Sherrod's 18-year-old son, Cameron Morey,

00:01:42.260 reportedly attended Duncanville High School together

00:01:45.300 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area,

00:01:47.040 but it's unclear whether the two were friends.

00:01:49.260 Morey said he viewed Cash as another younger brother.

00:01:51.760 The sweetest little boy, Morey, who lives with his mother

00:01:54.460 in the same home where Cash was staying,

00:01:56.380 told Fox 4 Dallas about the boy and their care.

00:01:59.340 He loved everybody, the biggest smile ever.

00:02:01.500 He loved to play superheroes with us and all that.

00:02:03.800 Isn't it always like that?

00:02:05.040 I mean, these kids, you know, they light up a room,

00:02:07.340 but they're the ones that end up having this done to them. 0.97

00:02:09.640 It's ridiculous.

00:02:11.040 Morey's and Brown's family homes are located within a half mile 0.79

00:02:14.260 from where Cash's body was found,

00:02:16.480 the Dallas Morning News reported.

00:02:18.040 Morey said he had seen Brown in passing just five days earlier.

00:02:21.340 Just like, hey, you know, how y'all doing, you know?

00:02:23.800 And that was it, Morey told Fox 4,

00:02:25.920 describing the exchange with Brown.

00:02:27.460 There's no reason for this.

00:02:28.520 What did he, what he did was wrong,

00:02:30.080 and I don't know what made him think that this is all right

00:02:32.600 and this is okay.

00:02:33.460 This is a four-year-old kid, bruh.

00:02:35.040 Like, for what?

00:02:36.840 Like, why?

00:02:37.620 He was four, you know?

00:02:38.760 Who does this to a four-year-old kid?

00:02:43.280 I got quite a few, quite a few stories

00:02:45.460 about who does this to four-year-old kids.

00:02:47.200 Morey also told KXAS-TV in an on-camera interview

00:02:51.700 outside the playhouse, or outside the home.

00:02:54.040 For what?

00:02:54.580 For no reason.

00:02:55.240 Just because you want to be evil?

00:02:57.500 Cash is believed to have been killed with an edged weapon,

00:03:00.260 police said.

00:03:00.860 No motive has been identified,

00:03:02.280 and police said additional charges could come against Brown,

00:03:04.660 as forensic evidence is still being analyzed.

00:03:07.000 Sherrod reported Cash missing around 11 a.m. Saturday,

00:03:09.680 but Cash's then unidentified body

00:03:11.900 had already been discovered hours earlier,

00:03:13.900 around 7 a.m., just eight blocks away.

00:03:15.780 Antoinise Square said she...

00:03:17.820 Okay.

00:03:20.400 Antoinise Square.

00:03:22.620 Yeah, she really is a jogger, huh? 1.00

00:03:24.380 Said she was jogging through the Mountain Creek area neighborhood

00:03:26.860 and first thought she saw a dog in the street

00:03:29.220 in the 7,500 block Saddle Ridge Drive.

00:03:31.700 As she got closer, the woman realized 1.00

00:03:33.460 it was the boy's lifeless body she found lying in a pool of blood.

00:03:36.980 Police declined to provide any updates

00:03:38.620 about the potential for murder charges to Fox News Tuesday,

00:03:41.660 instead referring to a blog page

00:03:43.480 last updated Monday at 4 p.m.

00:03:45.360 Brown's court-appointed defense attorney,

00:03:47.360 Robbie McClung, told Fox News on Tuesday

00:03:50.020 that it was, quote-unquote,

00:03:51.380 too soon for her to comment at this time.

00:03:53.420 Maury's two biological underage teenage brothers,

00:03:56.400 as well as Cash's twin four-year-old brother,

00:03:59.140 have since been removed from the home

00:04:00.640 by Child Protective Services, KXAS-TV reported.

00:04:04.080 Cash's twin brother has been reunited

00:04:06.020 with their biological mother, Melinda Seagroves.

00:04:08.960 Police said Seagroves and her mother

00:04:10.420 and the boy's grandmother, Connie Ward,

00:04:12.080 had been conducting a search for the twins,

00:04:14.040 quote-unquote, for an extended amount of time.

00:04:16.120 Seagroves was unaware the boy's father

00:04:18.520 had placed them in Sherrod's care.

00:04:20.260 Brown's mother, Mimi Brown,

00:04:21.720 told the Dallas Morning News outside her home

00:04:23.620 that she believed her son had been framed,

00:04:26.040 as he has several young cousins

00:04:27.660 he helps take care of and wouldn't harm.

00:04:29.580 He ain't did nothing.

00:04:31.740 Darian is very kind, she said.

00:04:33.640 I feel like he's being framed.

00:04:36.220 She said her son is a patient at MetroCare Services,

00:04:38.720 which provides mental health care

00:04:39.980 to children and adults, according to the outlet.

00:04:42.760 I know my son is traumatized,

00:04:44.720 Mimi Brown added.

00:04:45.580 I know he's scared, because I'm scared.

00:04:47.540 Yeah.

00:04:49.740 So his death was ruled a homicide,

00:04:52.380 though no murder charges have been filed

00:04:53.920 against alleged kidnapper.

00:04:55.220 Um, so yeah, this headline reads,

00:04:57.480 Dallas four-year-old Cash Gernon's death

00:04:59.140 caused by multiple stab wounds.

00:05:00.740 So the four-year-old boy who was kidnapped from his bed

00:05:03.080 and whose lifeless body was found hours later

00:05:05.020 on a Dallas, Texas street,

00:05:06.760 died as a result of multiple stab wounds,

00:05:08.780 according to a local report.

00:05:10.180 The Dallas County Medical Examiner

00:05:11.780 determined Cash Gernon's death

00:05:13.100 was a homicide as a result of the wounds.

00:05:15.720 Local news station CBS DFW reported

00:05:18.520 a spokesperson from the medical examiner's office

00:05:21.240 could not be reached by Fox News on Friday.

00:05:23.080 Cash was being taken care of

00:05:24.480 by his father's girlfriend

00:05:25.340 at the time of the kidnapping,

00:05:26.460 police said the woman said Cash's father

00:05:28.240 had been absent since March.

00:05:29.880 Yeah, so surveillance footage from the home

00:05:31.520 where the boy was staying

00:05:32.660 shows the suspect,

00:05:33.980 who the woman identified as

00:05:35.260 18-year-old Darian Brown,

00:05:36.740 taking Cash from his crib

00:05:37.980 and carrying him away from the camera's view,

00:05:40.220 according to the detective's arrest

00:05:42.180 affidavit obtained by the Dallas Morning News.

00:05:45.380 The affidavit does not detail

00:05:46.900 Brown's relationship to Cash's family

00:05:48.720 or offer any explanation for Brown taking Cash.

00:05:51.280 Brown is being held on charges

00:05:52.660 of kidnapping burglary.

00:05:54.100 The girlfriend called police

00:05:54.980 shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday

00:05:56.980 to say Cash was missing.

00:05:58.400 Meanwhile, police had found the boy dead

00:06:00.060 around 6.50 a.m.,

00:06:01.440 about a half mile from her home.

00:06:02.980 Assistant Police Chief Albert Martinez

00:06:04.980 has said it appeared the child suffered

00:06:06.900 a violent death

00:06:07.640 and that an edged weapon was used.

00:06:09.520 Okay, here we have

00:06:10.320 Caretaker of Texas Voice Nash

00:06:12.140 while sleeping has left bedroom untouched.

00:06:14.960 I know I have to confront this.

00:06:16.640 I haven't been able to do this until now,

00:06:18.420 the woman who cared for the toddler said.

00:06:20.020 So yeah, so she's just talking about

00:06:22.420 how she hadn't touched the room

00:06:24.180 since this whole incident occurred.

00:06:25.920 I'm wondering why we didn't hear him break in,

00:06:27.740 she said.

00:06:28.160 The day that he was missing,

00:06:29.220 I got up late and thought it was weird.

00:06:30.520 It was like,

00:06:31.060 it's 10 o'clock already, you guys,

00:06:32.480 so I figured Cash was still in bed.

00:06:34.320 Cash's brother replied,

00:06:35.460 he went outside, she said.

00:06:36.720 She then screamed, 1.00

00:06:37.480 Cash, if you're hiding from mommy,

00:06:38.640 it's not funny anymore.

00:06:39.700 Come out, it's time for breakfast.

00:06:40.960 He wouldn't answer.

00:06:41.780 As reports of a body being discovered

00:06:43.200 a half mile away began to circulate,

00:06:44.860 Sherrod said she refused to believe

00:06:46.240 it was her toddler.

00:06:47.160 I was crying and confused

00:06:48.200 and in a million pieces

00:06:49.160 and praying they would still find Cash

00:06:51.000 and that that little boy wasn't Cash,

00:06:52.680 she said.

00:06:53.160 I kept telling my daughter,

00:06:54.920 that's not Cash.

00:06:55.800 The jogger who found Cash,

00:06:57.460 Antoinette Square,

00:06:58.320 told a Daily Mail

00:06:58.980 she initially thought

00:06:59.780 she stumbled upon a dog

00:07:00.980 before taking a closer look

00:07:02.180 and calling 911.

00:07:03.340 He was only wearing

00:07:04.100 a pair of bottomed shorts,

00:07:06.140 Square said.

00:07:06.780 I just keep remembering

00:07:07.860 those ants at the bottom

00:07:08.900 of that baby's feet.

00:07:09.960 Brown was an acquaintance

00:07:10.820 of one of her sons

00:07:11.620 and had visited the home

00:07:12.580 two days earlier

00:07:13.280 and interacted with Cash,

00:07:14.520 which angered her, she said.

00:07:15.740 She also disputed claims

00:07:16.980 that the boy's biological mother

00:07:18.380 had made efforts to search for them

00:07:20.000 after their father disappeared.

00:07:21.300 On Monday,

00:07:22.040 Sherrod and her parents

00:07:22.980 visited a makeshift shrine

00:07:24.560 for the boy

00:07:25.100 where they laid down

00:07:25.760 a toy dinosaur.

00:07:26.780 It was his favorite toy.

00:07:27.760 He loved that toy, she said.

00:07:29.020 He had a bunch of cars

00:07:29.820 and put them around the dinosaur

00:07:30.920 and said,

00:07:31.440 Look, Mom,

00:07:31.860 I made a monster truck.

00:07:33.060 Aww.

00:07:33.880 I hadn't actually read this before.

00:07:35.080 That was a little touching.

00:07:35.980 Brown is being held

00:07:36.660 on $1.5 million bail

00:07:38.300 and faces kidnapping

00:07:39.240 and theft charges.

00:07:40.180 Additional charges

00:07:40.900 are expected

00:07:41.420 pending for forensic test results.

00:07:43.120 So in another article,

00:07:44.180 and I'm not going to read it here

00:07:45.180 because, you know,

00:07:45.920 there's no point

00:07:46.420 in getting into it,

00:07:47.260 but he ended up being

00:07:48.580 declared incompetent

00:07:49.940 to stay in trial.

00:07:50.620 Of course.

00:07:51.640 You know,

00:07:52.200 real justice,

00:07:52.900 will it be served?

00:07:53.600 No.

00:07:53.840 Will he be remembered?

00:07:55.060 No.

00:07:55.580 No.

00:07:56.040 In order for him

00:07:57.940 to be remembered,

00:07:58.600 he would have to 0.99

00:07:59.300 be black, 0.99

00:08:00.260 be fully grown, 0.99

00:08:01.160 have a rap sheet,

00:08:02.080 hold a pregnant woman 1.00

00:08:02.960 up at gunpoint,

00:08:04.200 use counterfeit cash,

00:08:06.000 swallow his stashes

00:08:06.680 at police encounters,

00:08:07.900 and overdose himself 0.60

00:08:09.360 under a cop's knee.

00:08:10.660 Then,

00:08:11.600 then he'd be worth remembering.

00:08:13.260 But as it is,

00:08:13.920 he was just a boy

00:08:14.500 being snatched out of his crib

00:08:15.840 and just taken off

00:08:17.260 and just killed

00:08:17.940 for no reason at all.

00:08:19.080 And that's just not

00:08:19.960 worth remembering, right?

00:08:21.180 I hate to invoke the

00:08:22.280 imagine if the shoe

00:08:23.380 is on the other foot

00:08:24.300 or if the roles were reversed.

00:08:25.920 You'd never hear the end of it.

00:08:27.060 You will hear George Floyd

00:08:28.400 over and over and over again.

00:08:30.140 Ahmaud Arbery,

00:08:30.980 Trayvon Martin,

00:08:31.840 George Floyd,

00:08:32.680 say their names,

00:08:33.920 ACAB,

00:08:34.600 la la la la.

00:08:35.420 And it will just never end.

00:08:37.060 But little boys

00:08:37.960 like Cash Gurnan

00:08:38.760 who just get,

00:08:39.720 you know,

00:08:40.320 snatched out of their bed

00:08:41.260 while they're sleeping,

00:08:42.220 taken out 0.98

00:08:43.220 and just stabbed to death. 0.92

00:08:44.420 Yeah.

00:08:46.640 Not even worth talking about,

00:08:47.640 I guess.

00:08:48.280 You know?

00:08:49.240 Let's just make sure

00:08:50.020 that we keep paying attention 0.97

00:08:50.940 to all the black grievances. 0.73

00:08:52.500 Let's make sure 0.95

00:08:52.980 that we hyper-focus on,

00:08:54.880 you know,

00:08:55.980 a handful of particular cases

00:08:57.560 where,

00:08:58.280 generally speaking,

00:08:59.180 the person that they're grieving,

00:09:00.620 it's their fault.

00:09:02.140 You know,

00:09:02.520 if they hadn't resisted arrest, 0.99

00:09:03.800 if they hadn't acted a fool, 0.98

00:09:05.320 if they hadn't done 1.00

00:09:05.920 a bunch of dumb shit, 1.00

00:09:07.160 they'd probably still be alive. 1.00

00:09:09.180 But instead, 1.00

00:09:10.000 they do all that dumb shit. 1.00

00:09:11.480 They get killed. 1.00

00:09:12.120 Then they become a martyr. 0.99

00:09:13.600 They'll be remembered.

00:09:14.420 And people like Cash won't.

00:09:15.920 So we need to remember him. 0.99

00:09:17.280 Because that's fucked up. 0.99

00:09:18.540 I see no reason 1.00

00:09:19.440 to care about black grievances. 0.67

00:09:20.840 I mean, 0.83

00:09:21.100 you look at this stuff,

00:09:22.160 even one of these incidents,

00:09:23.880 and the fact that

00:09:24.500 it gets swept aside,

00:09:26.040 it gets memory-holed,

00:09:27.440 while we're constantly

00:09:28.440 reminded about

00:09:29.120 George Floyd,

00:09:29.880 George Floyd.

00:09:30.620 It's just,

00:09:31.460 I don't care.

00:09:32.820 I don't care about 0.98

00:09:33.340 black grievances 0.98

00:09:33.980 and neither should you.

00:09:35.080 Neither should you.

00:09:35.700 We have our own problems.

00:09:36.920 And we have lots of problems.

00:09:39.480 And they're the cause

00:09:40.540 of a lot of those problems.

00:09:42.520 So don't let them

00:09:43.480 grow beat you.

00:09:44.120 And shame you.

00:09:44.840 And act like everything 0.97

00:09:45.500 is your fault. 0.59

00:09:46.640 And oh look,

00:09:47.260 woe is me. 1.00

00:09:47.920 Look at George Floyd.

00:09:49.040 Woe is me. 1.00

00:09:49.720 Ahmaud Arbery.

00:09:50.540 Trayvon Martin.

00:09:51.440 Da da da da da da.

00:09:52.800 Woe is me. 1.00

00:09:53.620 Say their names.

00:09:54.460 BLN.

00:09:55.120 Blah blah blah.

00:09:56.120 Yeah. 0.94

00:09:57.020 I don't give a damn 1.00

00:09:57.960 about that shit. 1.00

00:09:59.980 Um. 1.00

00:10:00.340 And it's because of stuff

00:10:02.280 like this.

00:10:03.100 Because of stuff like this.

00:10:04.140 So just remember that

00:10:04.920 next time they cry

00:10:05.660 their crocodile tears

00:10:06.760 and you feel tempted

00:10:07.760 to give a damn, 0.92

00:10:08.660 just don't.

00:10:09.380 Don't.

00:10:09.820 Because they don't 0.74

00:10:10.400 give a damn. 0.90

00:10:10.980 Society collectively 0.92

00:10:11.840 doesn't give a damn

00:10:12.680 about what happens

00:10:14.100 to our people,

00:10:14.840 what happens to our children.

00:10:16.060 So if the world's

00:10:16.700 gonna forget them,

00:10:17.320 we're not.

00:10:17.820 Okay?

00:10:18.220 Let's remember him.

00:10:19.220 Take a moment.

00:10:19.980 Remember him.

00:10:20.980 Remember all the other

00:10:21.780 children that are being

00:10:22.540 taken from us

00:10:23.260 by them.

00:10:23.720 and

00:10:26.660 they're being

00:10:28.640 hushed hushed

00:10:29.460 and not talked about

00:10:31.600 and not constantly

00:10:33.320 thrown in your face. 0.58

00:10:35.800 Statues are not 0.89

00:10:36.600 erected in their honor.

00:10:37.660 There are not murals.

00:10:39.060 There are not rallies

00:10:40.260 and marches.

00:10:41.020 There are not burning cities.

00:10:42.520 There's not moral outrage.

00:10:44.220 You don't have

00:10:44.980 powers and dignitaries

00:10:46.840 all over the world

00:10:47.700 on TV

00:10:48.500 vomiting out their

00:10:50.300 sympathies.

00:10:51.520 No one cares.

00:10:52.420 Just no one cares.

00:10:53.100 So we have to care.

00:10:54.220 No one cares

00:10:54.820 about cash

00:10:55.980 just like 0.99

00:10:56.640 non-whites don't care 1.00

00:10:57.600 about whites 0.98

00:10:58.180 in general.

00:10:59.300 No one cares.

00:11:00.300 Nobody's gonna be there

00:11:01.140 for us.

00:11:01.940 Nobody's gonna be there

00:11:02.820 for people like cash

00:11:04.080 if it's not for us.

00:11:04.920 Nobody's gonna be there

00:11:05.680 for us if we don't

00:11:06.560 stand up for ourselves

00:11:07.400 and we're gonna have to.

00:11:08.840 We're gonna have to

00:11:09.700 because this is

00:11:10.620 happening to our children

00:11:11.580 and

00:11:12.420 you don't hear a peep.

00:11:14.540 We all forget.

00:11:15.660 Like it just

00:11:16.140 doesn't matter.

00:11:17.040 Well folks,

00:11:17.780 I appreciate your support.

00:11:19.280 I appreciate you

00:11:19.880 listening in.

00:11:20.660 You guys take care.

Shameless Sperg - August 18, 2025

Black Crimes Matter： 4 y⧸o Cash Gernon murder

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