Ex-NFL Player Sergio Brown Pleads Not Guilty to Mother's Murder

Prosecutors Link DNA Evidence to Brown, Defense Claims Evidence is Circumstantial

Sergio Brown, a former NFL player, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the death of his mother, Myrtle Brown.
Myrtle Brown's body was discovered near a creek in Maywood, Illinois, on September 16, and the cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma.
Sergio Brown was arrested in San Diego on October 10 after being deported from Mexico, where he had been using his mother's credit cards in the days following her death.
Prosecutors claim that DNA samples from under Myrtle Brown's fingernails match those found on a toothbrush in Sergio Brown's bedroom, but his defense argues that the evidence is circumstantial.
Sergio Brown is due back in court on January 24.