A Chicago judge on Tuesday sentenced a man convicted in a deadly Edgewater attack that left 11-year-old Jayden Perkins dead after he attempted to defend his pregnant mother.
“You have taken away one of the greatest gifts God has blessed me with,” Perkins’ mother Laterria Smith said during the sentencing hearing. “I am broken without my son.”
Crosetti Brand was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder, 60 years in prison for attempted murder and domestic battery, and 60 years in prison for home invasion…