A 22-year-old man in Texas may spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a 4-year-old boy shortly after kidnapping him as he slept next to his twin brother.

Darriynn Brown on Monday admitted to fatally stabbing the child, just minutes before jurors were to be selected to decide whether he was guilty of murdering young Cash Ganon in 2021, court records show.

Brown, who was facing a charge of capital murder, reached a deal with prosecutors and agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of first-degree murder in the boy's slaying. Following his formal plea, Dallas County District Judge Stephanie N. Huff immediately ordered Brown to serve a sentence of life in a state correctional facility, though the convicted killer will have the opportunity for parole.

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