(L.A.) Dayvon Taylor, 6, Died in a Hospital

Case Number: 2019-09797

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 6-year-old Black male that occurred in a hospital.

The coroner’s office has identified the child as Dayvon Taylor.

Manner of Death: Homicide

Cause of Death: Blunt Trauma

RIP DAYVON TAYLOR (November 4, 2013 – December 26, 2019)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Thursday at 6:11 p.m.

The decedent was fatally beaten the day after Christmas by his godfather Tyler D’Shaun Martin Brand, 26.

Brand was an employee of LAUSD, the Los Angeles Unified School District, who supervised the after-school program of which the boy and his killer were a part of.

The beating happened at the killer’s apartment in Downey. The boy died the same day at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach.

In August 2023, the child’s mother Kenya Taylor won $30 million in emotional distress damages in her lawsuit against LAUSD.