A jury Thursday evening found defendant Crosetti Brand guilty of stabbing an 11-year-old boy and seriously injuring the boy’s pregnant mother in March 2024.
Brand, 39, was charged with 17 counts, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, home invasion and domestic battery. A jury found him guilty on all counts Thursday evening.
Brand’s jury trial began last month. He was charged with going to his pregnant ex-girlfriend Laterria Smith’s apartment in the Edgewater neighborhood in March 2024, and stabbing her in the neck. When her son, Jayden Perkins, tried to intervene to protect her, Brand stabbed him in the chest…