The trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing an 11-year-old as the boy tried to protect his pregnant mother has reached a verdict.

The verdict, reached Thursday evening, named Crosetti Brand guilty on all counts in connection to the Edgewater attack that occurred in March 2024, accused of killing 11-year-old Jayden Perkins.

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

Prosecutors allege that Perkins was trying to protect his pregnant mother from Brand, who allegedly broke into the Edgewater residence and stabbed the boy multiple times.

The March 13, 2024 attack occurred just one day after Brand was released from prison, according to prosecutors. Brand, whom Chicago police said

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