Cash Gernon murder: Monica Sherrod accused of 'gaining financially' from death of boyfriend's slain toddler son
DALLAS, TEXAS: As the mysterious tragedy of Cash Gernon unfolds, there has been ample suspicion shown towards the family the slain Texas toddler was living with. The suspect who was caught on camera kidnapping the boy from his cot is a family acquaintance of Monica Sherrod, Cash's father's ex-girlfriend in whose care the twins, Cash and Carter Gernon, had been living. With fingers being pointed from every direction, Cash's aunt, Patty Seagroves, who identifies as his mother Melinda's sister, has now come forward with claims that Sherrod is trying to "gain financially" from the horrific ordeal the boy was put through.
Seagroves and her family were unaware that Cash was living with Sherrod or that the father - Trevor Gernon - had vanished after facing legal troubles and leaving the boys in Sherrod's care. Cash was found murdered in the middle of a Dallas street, lying in a pool of his own blood. He died from multiple stab wounds and was found without a shirt or shoes, just eight blocks away from the house he was living in with his twin and Sherrod and her children. The suspect, Darriynn Brown, also lived within less than a mile from the scene and has since been alleged to be an old acquaintance of the family.
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Patty Seagroves believes that "the woman has also falsely claimed to be Cash’s mother and has tried to gain financially from his death," as reads a GoFundMe page that urges eager donors to not contribute to pages associated with Sherrod. Seagroves said her sister Melinda had been "desperately looking" for the twins since their father Trevor, who had their custody, took them and disappeared in March.
"Authorities have also been involved in looking for the father and the boys," she wrote in the GoFundMe post, adding that the father had ultimately "abandoned" the boys with Sherrod without informing the mother. "My family is in shock and grieving whilst we wait to find out what exactly happened to Cash," Seagroves said. "It has been questioned as to why we haven’t spoken out publicly, but we have never experienced such loss and do not currently have the words to convey to anyone how we are feeling."
Suspicions surrounding Sherrod
Sherrod, too, has been seemingly heartbroken since the tragedy. As seen in video interviews with Daily Mail and given what she's told the media and the police, Sherrod had been raising the twins as her own ever since Trevor left them with her. Both she and her son Kamron Mori, 18, who went to school with Brown, have been seen crying in the wake of the murder. They also shared they were all asleep when Brown broke into the house and kidnapped Cash. The suspect had returned a couple of hours later for the other twin and bolted, visibly spooked by something or someone, but neither Sherrod nor Mori can be seen interfering to spook him off in baby monitor videos.
"He came in and broke the connecting door into the home. We are on the other side of the house, we didn’t hear anything," Sherrod told the Daily Mail about the incident. Brown has since been charged, but not arrested for Cash's murder, after the boy was found by a passing jogger at 6:40 am on Saturday, May 15. Brown is being held on $150,000 bail with forensic results expected to slam additional charges on him.
Sherrod on her part maintains that stories of Melinda frantically looking for the twins isn't true, as per Daily Mail. She also claimed she has been banned from the boy's funeral by the Seagroves.