The man suspected of abducting four-year-old Cash Gernon before stabbing him to death and dumping his body on a street in Dallas allegedly returned hours later at daybreak to snatch his twin brother Carter.
The chilling moment Darriyn Brown hovers menacingly over the cot of Carter Gernon, as Cash lay stabbed to death in a Dallas street, is captured on home surveillance footage exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.
Brown, 18, reaches down and touches the boy as he stirs in his cot, before wandering around the room, seemingly disturbed by a sound, and fleeing the room, leaving the boy sleeping peacefully.
Hours earlier just before 5am, Brown allegedly broke into the same home and made off with Cash, who was found stabbed to death and dumped on the street in Dallas, Texas.
DailyMail.com can also reveal Brown was captured on camera a second time as he returned to the scene after sunrise in an apparent attempt to kidnap the other boy – when Cash would have already been dead.
On Tuesday, the Dallas Medical Examiner revealed Cash had died of multiple stab wounds. Police had earlier said his wounds appear to have been inflicted by an ‘edged weapon’.
The two brothers had been staying at the home located on the 7500 block of Saddleridge Drive where they shared a bedroom located in the back of the house.
In night vision footage, Brown creeps in dressed in a hoodie, backpack, sweatpants, and sneakers, and hovers menacingly over the two boys.
Roughly an hour and 45 minutes later, Cash was found lying dead in a pool of blood in a quiet residential Dallas street after being stabbed with what police described as an ‘edged weapon.’
A second and further disturbing clip also shows Brown returning to the bedroom after daybreak around 7am, this time apparently targeting Carter.
Brown is seen hovering the boy who is still asleep, but leaves empty-handed after a few seconds after he appears to be scared off by someone or something.
Brown gained entry by coming through the unlocked garage door and forcing the back door into the house, Sherrod told Dailymail.com.
Sherrod revealed Brown was known to the family as the brother of her older sons’ friend, but said she does not know why he would’ve targeted the toddlers.