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Brandon Walker, 42, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2022 murder of his eight-year-old son Navin Jones.
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The father of Navin Jones, an 8-year-old boy who died of severe malnutrition and abuse in 2022, was found guilty of first degree murder Friday after a weeklong trial that detailed the abuse and further revealed how the Department of Children and Family Services did not act to remove the child from his parents' care.
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A Peoria County jury took less than an hour to find Brandon Walker guilty of first-degree murder Friday for the death of his 8-year-old son, Navin Jones.
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Walker, 41, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of his 8-year-old son, Navin Jones. Navin died March 29, 2022 due to extreme neglect and abuse.
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Prosecutors rested their case Wednesday, during the third day of the murder trial of Brandon Walker, the father of 8-year-old Navin Jones.
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The prosecution said in opening statements that the evidence would show that the boy's father, Brandon Walker, 41, withheld food and medical care from Navin. The defense said it would show that Navin’s mother, Stephanie Jones, was the guilty party.
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Brandon Walker is charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the death of Navin. The state's attorneys dropped four of the original six charges.
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The mother of an 8-year-old Peoria boy who died of "extreme neglect and abuse" pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder.
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The trial of Brandon Walker — the father of 8-year-old Navin Jones, who was killed in March 2022 — is delayed until Sept. 18.
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Child deaths involving the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services increased by 40 percent in the last fiscal year.