An Ohio man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 3-year-old son in a shocking case that involved throwing the child off a bridge and disposing of the woman’s body in the same location. According to The Cincinnati Enquirer and a news release from Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich, Desean Brown, 25, was sentenced on September 10, 2025, after accepting a plea deal that removed the death penalty from consideration.
The case began in December 2020 when Brown killed 29-year-old Nyteisha Lattimore by stabbing her 11 times in the neck inside her Walnut Hills apartment in Cincinnati. The following day, he took Lattimore’s son, Nylo, to the Purple People Bridge that stretches across the Ohio River and threw the 3-year-old child, along with his stroller, into the icy water while the boy was still alive. Despite extensive search efforts that lasted for months, Nylo’s body was never recovered.
