Baby With M*th In His Brain Left to Rot in Playpen
at around 11 30 pm on April 11 2019 dispatchers with the Wichita Kansas Police Department received a 9-1-1 call from a concerned citizen claiming that their neighbors were fighting the caller Shannon Higgins told dispatchers quote I was standing out on my porch I heard very violent yelling and then I heard people striking each other and yelling and screaming and I still hear a woman screaming whatever is going on in that house is not good right now end quote Shannon later went on to state that he turned around to head back to his house
when he heard a woman wailing in such a way that made his stomach sink then he observed a man pushing a woman inside their trailer and shutting the door these Neighbors in question were 26 year old Patrick Robert javanovich and his girlfriend 22 year old Brandy Kai Marchant the couple resided at the Riverside mobile home park in the 4500 block of South Hydraulic Avenue in Wichita and it just moved in a few months prior the couple was known to the Wichita Police Department in fact over the past year and a half officers
responded to calls about the family 22 times many of those calls were placed when the family lived in their previous address in the Oakview neighborhood on the 4900 block of Jade Avenue between November of 2017 and April of 2019 dispatchers received calls from concern to neighbors Patrick’s mother Donna Lloyd and even the couple themselves several of the calls were in regard to Brandy threatening to take her own life in one such incident a pregnant Brandy allegedly held the knife to her own throat in March of 2018 Donna Lloyd
placed a call regarding Brandy she told dispatchers quote she slapped my 11 month old grandbaby you guys came out and didn’t do a damn thing about it that baby was over here for two days with her fingerprints on his face when he’s 11 months old she needs some kind of psychotic help there’s something wrong with her and this is not healthy for my grandbaby he’s just a one-year-old end quote on February 3rd 2019 a call was placed in dispatcher’s overheard Patrick and Brandy in the middle of a heated argument there was cursing accusations
of infidelity and sounds of a scuffle when officers responded to their home shortly after the couple claimed that they had been fighting about money Brandy also claimed that she was bipolar in off for meds due to a lapse in her state provided insurance coverage January 20th 2018. I don’t want to have an emergency call me Patrick Ivanovich calls 9-1-1 about his fiance Brandy Marchant I need the cost of 4957 South Dave my fiance just put a knife for her throat and just trying to that’s just one of 18 calls to the same home since January 2018. many
calls came from Brandy my boyfriend tried to test me and I pissed him off of me and I made him hit his head on the wall okay and I smacked my son earlier we know Zayden was living in the home with them at the time he was just 11 months old when that call was made it’s clear domestic violence was a common theme between marchen and Ivanovic this call is from June of 2018.
ma’am can I have your boyfriend’s name please no no I’m going to my mother’s where I’m safe you can leave me alone now marchant’s mental health is also a common concern like in this call from Patrick in September of 2018. do we know if she’s injured at all yet or I have no clue all I know is she told me she told me to send me a message and said I did it the last and possibly most alarming call came from the same address in February of this year two months before zaiden died hello through the emergency please press a button here
‘s your phone officers who weren’t surprised by this call made their way over to the couple’s trailer when they arrived on the scene they found Patrick and Brandy walking about the trailer park now there are conflicting reports as to what they were arguing about some claimed the two began to fight because Brandy was sleeping the day away due to the fact that she was annoyed with her son Zayden who had been crying non-stop the day prior however other reports claim that the argument stemmed from some frivolous need to go
to the gas station Randy who was in shorts complained that she was cold but refused to move the interview indoors because she claimed that her house was a mess however due to the fact that police became aware that the couple had children inside they opted to do a wellness check Patrick agreed to let the officers in but only if they agreed not to wake them inside of their tiny trailer Patrick and Brandi lived with two of their children two-year-old Zayden and his four-month-old brother Tai Patrick was not the father of the
baby which gave Credence to the accusations of infidelity heard on the previous 9-1-1 call fact Ty’s father was a man by the name of Julius Cassara at the time of his birth the little boy was born with weakness system but for whatever reason CPS allowed Brandi to retain custody in addition Brandy had two older Sons that she did not have custody of and Patrick had an older daughter who would visit on weekends from time to time once inside officers allegedly heard a baby cooing and found Ty wedged under a pillow on
the side of his crib allegedly the crib was loaded with pillows and stuffed animals one would think that with Tai being Brandy’s fourth child she’d know that such items are hazardous to infants and could cause them to suffocate but Brandy isn’t exactly mom of the year at the same time another officer located Zayden who was laying face down in his pack and play he was surrounded by his own vomit his tiny body was wrapped tightly in a beige blanket and he was cold to the touch in fact his temperature was only 94 0.9 degrees and
Zayden wasn’t responding after the officer unwrapped him from his blanket they found an even more troubling scene Zayden was wearing footy pajamas like the Carter Styles one with the zipper down the front but his arms weren’t inside the sleeves instead the sleeves had been tied tightly in a knot around the two-year-old’s throat the officers removed the pajamas and observed that zayden’s tiny body was littered with bruises in all colors black blue purple green this proved that he had sustained injuries over time some were fresh some
were healing he was also severely malnourished the officers used baby wipes to clear Zane’s Airway in attempted CPR but he was already gone when Emergency Services arrived they pronounced Zayden javanovic dead at 1201 am Tai was taken to the hospital where it was observed that he was notably small for his age after being weighed the doctor stated that he weighed a mere eight pounds now according to Medical news today the average weight of a four-month-old baby boy is 15 pounds 7 ounces Thai weighed about as much as
your average newborn additionally Thai 2 was covered in bruises much like his older brother he had a bruise on his left ear in a swollen jaw which was consistent with Donna Lloyd’s complaints that Brandy was slapping her baby he also had two healing rib fractures which doctors believed were about two weeks old in addition to a severe diaper rash that in turn caused tide to have a yeast infection at autopsy Zayden was covered with abrasions and contusions in addition to the bruising that I mentioned previously many of which were
located on his head in torso these abrasions on his face looked similar to the ones you might get if someone was holding a pillow over your face there was one doctor put it his face being forced down onto something by someone pushing on the back of his head now as we mentioned before Zayden was extremely malnourished the average two-year-old boy weighs roughly 27 pounds zayden’s case he only weighed just under 15 pounds at the time of his death closer to what his four-month-old baby brother should have weighed now toxicology tests
indicated that crystal meth was found in the little boy’s brain rain his tiny body was already starting to decompose which indicated he’d been left in that state for several hours at the very least in the end the medical examiner concluded that Zayden died as a result of dehydration and malnutrition in the manner of death was a homicide he was laid to rest in the White Chapel Memorial Gardens in Wichita beneath a granite gravestone engraved was a teddy bear holding two balloons and the inscription in loving memory Zayden
Patrick javanovic Bubba March 8th 2017 to April 11 2019. Patrick jovanovic and Brandi Marchant were arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree homicide two counts of CA and one count of aggravated child endangerment a second child endangerment charge was later added due to the fact that the couple had starved baby Ty the two were taken to the Cedric County jail and held in a two hundred thousand dollar Bond on June 9 2019 Patrick was attacked by inmate Lawrence Brown and so he had to undergo brain surgery
at her arraignment on September 9th 2019 Brandy pled not guilty and Patrick did the same the following day in addition his attorney Tricia Aldridge requested a mental evaluation be done on her client due to his attack due to his injuries Patrick was deemed incompetent to stand trial and was sent to larne State Hospital which is the largest psychiatric facility in the state of Kansas on the topic of both of the little boys being starved officers that arrived on the scene noted the absence of food and Patrick and Brandy’s trailer
fact the cupboard and fridge were totally bare but of course Patrick and Brandi contested this fact according to Patrick he fed Zade in the morning the police responded to their trailer before he headed off to work he did not see him after work that same day by his own admission so he had no clue allegedly that his two-year-old son was lying dead in his pack and play Slowly decomposing the according to Brandi she and Zayden had allegedly been under the weather for several days so she restrained him inside of his own pajamas so that he
couldn’t escape his pack and play and cry at the door apparently Zayden had been crying a lot and this annoyed the mom of the year the day prior Brandi had sent the following text to Patrick quote I am losing it I need to stay somewhere Zayden just won’t stop I can’t even watch effing TV and he had three bags of oatmeal and two things of yogurt and he is still screaming end quote Randy he’s freaking two years old she claimed that on the morning of the incident she went to bed at around 6 a.
m and slept throughout most of the day and much like Patrick had no idea that her son was dead in the wake of zayden’s death his little brother Tai was taken into custody by CPS and thankfully he made a full recovery you might be asking yourself where was his father Julius cassura during all of this well up until zayden’s death Brandy had been playing games not allowing Julius access to his son and causing a ton of drama he wasn’t even sure that Tai was his child until a paternity test was completed he didn’t
even get to see Ty at the hospital because Brandy didn’t put his name on his birth certificate according to the father quote I had no clue regardless if it was my son or not if I was aware of any of that I would have reported it I would have done something Randy didn’t strike me as the kind of person that would do anything like this end quote Julius who goes by the name juice on Facebook appears to have several children that he loves and cares for very much as a single dad as of 2020 Julius finally regained full custody of
his little boy with this in mind I would like to give a shout out to one of my favorite True Crime creators lane from suffer the little children as I’m sure you’re aware handling children’s cases takes quite a toll on you so much that very few creators want to cover them time and time again Lane does great work and if you were touched by zayden’s story I highly suggest heading over to her page and checking out her coverage not only is she an amazing Creator who truly cares about the children that she’s covering but she also has an
exclusive interview with Ty’s Dad I’m not going to give away any spoilers but please go over to Lane and show her some love in July of 2022 Patrick javanovic and Brandi Marchant pled guilty to the reduced charges of second-degree Reckless homicide aggravated kidnapping and CA apparently during this time Patrick became well enough to stand trial as part of their deal they were sentenced to 322 months in prison we’ll have to register his violent offenders upon release at the time of their sentencing Brandi was 26 years old and
Patrick was 31. if they serve all of their time they will be 53 and 58 years old at release and will still get get to live out their lives and freedom even though they stole zayden’s
