Brand, 39, is charged with 17 counts, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, home invasion and domestic battery.

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 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.

Over the past three weeks of trial, Brand has represented himself against charges he murdered Jayden Perkins, 11, the son of his former partner.

Members of the City Council’s Latino Caucus are calling for an investigation into how Chicago police responded to Wednesday’s demonstration outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in ...

A verdict has been reached in the trial of Crosetti Brand, the man accused of fatally stabbing 11-year-old Jayden Perkins as ...

The mother of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins, who was stabbed to death protecting her from an attack by her ex-boyfriend, said ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Crosetti Brand, the man charged with stabbing an 11-year-old boy to death and seriously hurting the boy's pregnant mother in Edgewater last year took the stand Monday in his own ...

39-year-old Crosetti Brand is representing himself despite no prior legal training. He is accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend, Lateria Smith, who was four months pregnant at the time of the ...

Representing himself while he stands trial on murder charges, Crosetti Brand was in the middle of heatedly arguing that he was receiving an unfair trial when the judge stopped him. “One second ...

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 ...