Jaylin Christian was a sixteen year old living in Florida when he would stab his Grandmother to death
According to court documents Jaylin Christian Grandmother Muriel Emerson, 57, had taken in her Grandson after he had problems living with his immediate family
Unfortunately Jaylin Christian would pay the woman back for her kindness by stabbing her over forty times causing her death
Jaylin Christian would be arrested, convicted and sentence to thirty five years in prison
Jaylin Christian Case
A young man who as a 16-year-old stabbed his grandmother to death in Rockledge in 2022 has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
JAYLIN K. CHRISTIAN, 19, pled guilty to the murder in an agreement with the State Attorney’s Office that called for his sentence to be decided by the judge. At a hearing Jan. 12, Assistant State Attorney Mike Doyle called for life imprisonment for Christian for the gruesome killing of his grandmother, Muriel Emerson, 57.
“She was his biggest supporter and champion,” Doyle said. Emerson, who had worked as a probation officer, took in the troubled teenager when he couldn’t get along with other family, “and within five months, she was dead,” Doyle said.
Emerson died Sept. 7, 2022, after she brought Christian home from school to her house on South Carolina Avenue. While she worked at her computer desk, Christian attacked her from behind with a kitchen knife. Digital evidence collected by Rockledge Police and prosecutors showed he had searched online for how to attack someone from behind and kill them with a knife.
The Brevard County Medical Examiner determined that Emerson died from at least 42 “sharp force injuries” including nine stab wounds that pierced her heart and left lung.
Shortly after the attack, Brevard County Sheriff’s dispatchers received a 911-call hangup that they traced to a gas station on Clearlake Road in Cocoa. There, deputies found Christian, who told them he had just stabbed his grandmother “too many times to count.” He also showed them a photo he had taken of her after the stabbing. Deputies sent Rockledge Police to Emerson’s home where they found her deceased.
Christian said he killed his grandmother in order to steal her credit card and run off with a male lover he met online. Police have not connected anyone else to the murder.
At Christian’s sentencing in Viera, Circuit Judge Charles Crawford ordered lifetime probation following his decades in state prison. Although still baffled and pained by Emerson’s death, surviving family members including Christian’s mother, appeared satisfied with the resolution of the case.
If Christian violates probation in any way following his release, Doyle said, he will be sent back to prison.
Jaylin Christian News
A teenager who fatally stabbed his grandmother 42 times in a bid to steal her credit cards and run off with a companion was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Jaylin Christian, now 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2022 death of Muriel Emerson, 57, with the stipulation that the sentence be decided by a judge. During the Monday, Jan. 12 hearing before Circuit Court Judge Charlie Crawford in Viera, Assistant State Attorney Mike Doyle asked that Christian, who was 16 at the time, receive life for the deadly stabbing.
“She was his biggest supporter and champion,” Doyle said in a statement. “Emerson, who had worked as a probation officer, took in the troubled teenager when he couldn’t get along with other family, and within five months, she was dead.”
The case shocked and baffled friends and family of Emerson.
Jaylin Christian was arrested after Brevard County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Rockledge police received a text to 911 that said he had killed his grandmother.
The teen had run away from home he shared with her the day before, police said. Emerson found the boy and brought him back home, reports show. The next day, on Sept. 7, 2002, Emerson picked the boy up from school and brought him home, police said.
The teen —who prosecutors said plotted to steal Emerson’s credit card and run off with an unidentified male lover he met online — looked up “how to attack someone from behind,” online, records show.
Prosecutors said the teen then crept up to Emerson and stabbed her repeatedly, piercing her heart and left lung. He took a picture of the body and covered her before leaving the home. The sheriff’s office then received a 911-hangup call from a gas station on Clearlake Road in Cocoa. Deputies found the teen who then confessed to stabbing his grandmother, “too many times to count.”
The medical examiner later reported that Emerson had been stabbed 42 times.
Prosecutors said police had not connected anyone else to the homicide despite Christian’s confession.
Jaylin Christian was also sentenced to a lifetime of probation after he serves his 35 years in state prison.
Rockledge teen sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing grandmother
