A Chicago boy is hailed a hero after he stepped in front of a knife-wielding criminal to protect his pregnant mother Wednesday.
Jayden Perkins, 11, was stabbed multiple times and killed by 37-year-old Crosetto Brand who was just paroled from jail after serving a 16-year sentence for assault and invasion.
Brand showed up armed with a knife at the woman’s home at around 8 a.m. as she accompanied her children, Jayden and a 5-year-old, to school.
The mother was repeatedly stabbed and listed in critical condition at a hospital where she is expected to survive along with her unborn baby.
Police said that the woman had a “lifetime” protection order against the criminal whom she dated more than 15 years ago.
“An innocent child’s life was taken as he tried to protect his mother far too soon and a mother was attacked in what should have been the safest place for her, which was her home,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said.
“However rare, this is horrific, and we need to do an evaluation – particularly in this case and others – to ensure that there were no gaps in the justice system that will allow for a dangerous offender to commit the acts that he did.”
