11-year-old arrested for his pregnant soon-to-be stepmother's murder: 20/20 Oct 19 Pt 1

Good evening, I'm David Muir, I'm Amy Robach and tonight it's 2020. ABC's Juju Chang is here with a dramatic twist on a case she's been covering for nine

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s. This is Jordan Brown when he was still a typical fifth grade quarterback. of the peewee football team the Warriors coached by his father Kris a single father Jordan had always been the center of his father's universe they were best friends they did everything together their hometown wampum Pennsylvania 40 miles north of Pittsburgh a rural area a sisterly love you make mistakes and you make mistakes -roaders is a heavily forested area with many small towns, many hills and it is very beautiful.

Jordan's childhood is filled with typical birthday parties, zoos, and pony rides. His father is very close to him. Jordan's smile brightens elementary school photos of him

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after year. year, what Jordan was like, what kind of kid he was at 11 years old, he was the average 11 year old kid, an all-American kid, you know, he played sports, baseball, football, he had friends, this is Jordan Brown, today , is now 21 years old, lovingly remembering that tender and precious moment in his life. type of childhood you would say you had until the age of 11 normal I guess he always had friends who came to the house, he always plays and likes games like video games and at that time Chris was also happy working and shipping in a local tableware factory committed with a woman he had known since his adolescence, Kenzi Hulk, a stylist and housewife, also a single mother of two girls, Janessa, seven, and Adeline, four.

What made you love her just the way she was? she was a funny person Kenzi was grill fly she always had a beautiful smile like everyone and she loved her kids that's all she said when you say what you want to be when you grow up I want to be a mom I want kids Kenzi and Chris and their kids had moved away together recently to this country house. The new blended family seemed to be coming together. Jordan even called Kenzi mom. What was your relationship with your future

stepmother

like? She went above and beyond for me, she had a good relationship with him and a new brother was on the way.

Chris and Kenzie were eagerly awaiting a baby together, a boy they had already named Christopher, she was over the moon, that was what she wanted. She had given me a shower. all the clothes were washed diapers where they were supposed to be and everything, yes she was ready, you were excited about the baby on the way, oh yes, absolutely, her father wouldn't be. I was happy. I always wanted a little brother and that's it. What was a boy, so that's what I was going to get, so you were excited, yes, I was very excited, it's a freezing February morning in 2009.

Kenzie is eight and a half months

pregnant

, but her hopes for a future together as a family they are about to fade away. being devastated I remember waking up that morning, arriving a little late for work, she had asked me to stay home that day and I didn't and that is something that has haunted me. What do you remember? It was just a normal morning my sister Janessa woke me up Kenzie is sleeping in the downstairs room Jordan is in her upstairs room once the baby arrived they were going to change rooms so Jordan had already moved her clothes downstairs she went upstairs she took my clothes went to the bathroom we got dressed and sat on the couch and a living room waiting and then Kenzie told us to go because the bus is coming and we're going to be late so we hurried up and went out the back door and ran down the driveway.

I went to school around 8:15am. Jordan and Janessa leave for school Four-year-old Adeline is asleep upstairs 9 a.m. m. The tree trimmers arrived to work on the house a short time later a tree trimmer grabbed Adeline at the door sobbing she tells him her mother is dead he calls 911 we arrived at the scene and did our initial assessment Kenzie was in a bedroom which was her impression at the time we assumed she had hemorrhaged somehow we didn't touch her we didn't move her at that moment we're trying to maintain the integrity of the scene When did you realize you had a

murder

on your hands?

The corner was taking photos and I was standing right at the edge of the door and I remember the corner said as he started touching the body, we have a problem and that's when we realized it was a homicide. Kenzie, 26, had been shot in the back of the head, execution style, the police tried to perform CPR, but it was too late, so the police made the dreaded call to Cris telling him to come back to home immediately. They told me that she and a baby were. She left and I remember collapsing in the yard. I lost it.

Chris Brown is interviewed at the State Police barracks. You are voluntarily giving this a statement. Yes, for freedom. Okay, Chris Brown was a suspect. Well, when you open an investigation, you have to leave everything open. As for who may be a suspect, Chris describes his final moments with Kenzie, he kissed her, told her he loved her, kissed me back, and left. Chris had been at work at the factory and his hands were clean of gunpowder residue, so they quickly eliminated him as the suspect. Meanwhile, the police head to Mohawk Elementary School to talk to the children.

Kenzie's daughter Janessa doesn't report anything out of the ordinary. It sounded like a typical morning for Jordyn: there were two police officers at the time. Did she know they were police? and they asked me. Same thing you like if something unusual happened and I just told him you know it was a normal morning but he tells the police that he saw a black van by the garage in the first police interview you mentioned you saw. . a vehicle in the driveway I didn't think anything of it, he knows it's a truck, I thought it was just a guy who was there, you know, working or something, but that's why I told him at 3:30 a.m. m.

The next morning, a grieving father and son. I finally manage to fall asleep when the silence of the night is broken by someone knocking on the door. I had just fallen asleep and of course, the stressful day we had, you had just lost your fiancé. Actually, I don't even know how I did it. I fell asleep Jordyn was laying on my arm crying and that's how we fell asleep, we woke up shortly after, it's the police, they have a warrant for his arrest, 11 year old Jordan Brown. Dollars. I remember they came and grabbed me at three in the morning.

They put me in the back of the car and took me to the police station and I was there and then they took me straight to the county jail and I had no idea I was going. I wasn't with anyone. It was a group of strangers. I was amazed