Kassceen Weaver is a convicted killer from Virginia for the murder of his ten year old son
According to court documents Kassceen Weaver would call his wife and tell her that their ten year old son had stopped breathing. Instead of calling for help Weaver would leave the body of his son in his crib for days until the corpse began to smell, Weaver would then put the body into a freezer. Eventually Weaver wife’s brother would call the police to report the ten year old boy missing. Authorities would search the home and find the body of the ten year old
Kassceen Weaver would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to thirty five years in prison with parole eligibility after twenty years
Kassceen Weaver Case
Former University of Richmond basketball star Kassceen “Kass” Weaver was sentenced to 20 years in prison connected to the neglect and death of his three-year-old son Adon and the concealment of the child’s body in the family’s freezer.
Weaver, 51, was convicted earlier this year on all the charges against him, including felony murder, felony child abuse/neglect, and aggravated malicious wounding charges, and faced a maximum of 55 years.
When Adon suffered some sort of medical emergency on the night of Oct. 23, 2018, prosecutors said Weaver failed to seek appropriate medical attention for his child.
They said Weaver then stored the child’s body in a freezer for several years to hide what happened and to prevent his other son from being taken away.
Weaver’s defense team had argued that no one knew what medical emergency Adon suffered that night and could not say if calling 911 would have made a difference.
They added that Weaver said he had attempted CPR, something his wife did to revive Adon when he stopped breathing over a week before.
Weaver did not address the court during the 30-minute hearing on Thursday due to the fact he still faces an aggravated malicious wounding charge involving his now ex-wife.
That case is set for trial in March 2024.
Kass Weaver played college basketball at the University of Richmond from 1992 to 1995.
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Kassceen Weaver News
former University of Richmond basketball star was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of killing his 3-year-old son and hiding the boy’s remains in a freezer for more than two years.
A Chesterfield County jury in July found Kassceen “Kass” Weaver, 51, guilty on charges of homicide, concealing a dead body and child neglect in the Oct. 23, 2018, death of his son Adon.
Weaver declined to give a statement at the sentencing and stated his intent to appeal.
The exact circumstances surrounding Adon’s death remain unclear, but prosecutors said the child suffered multiple broken bones, including a fractured skull and humerus, on the night that he died. Despite his “clear medical distress,” Weaver did not take Adon to the hospital or call 911, prosecutors said.
“Adon was a helpless child,” said Chesterfield Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Joshua Loren. “And (Weaver) refused to do anything.”
By the time Adon’s mother, Dina D. Weaver, returned home that evening, the boy was already dead, Loren said.
Prosecutors said Weaver put Adon’s body in a crib for several days before “it started to smell,” at which point he placed the body in a vacuum-sealed bag and stored it in a freezer in the home. The family lived in the 6400 block of Lookout Point Circle in Midlothian.
Court records indicate that the investigation into Adon’s death began after Dina Weaver’s brother alerted police to Adon’s disappearance. Weaver was arrested in December 2021, over two years after putting Adon’s body in the freezer.
Loren on Thursday asked Judge Edward Robbins to sentence Weaver to 55 years in prison under the maximum sentencing guidelines. He said Weaver’s behavior was “depraved, reprehensible (and) just evil.”
Weaver’s attorneys argued that Adon’s death was “not a typical second-degree murder.”
Kassceen Weaver’s defense team, led by Russ Stone, said Adon had had an “underlying medical condition” that contributed to his death and ultimately “caused him to stop breathing.” They described Weaver’s crimes as “acts of omission, not commission.”
“This is a very different situation from … malicious murder,” Weaver’s attorney said.
Kassceen Weaver’s attorneys added that Weaver was grieving the loss of his son and was hopeful for an opportunity to redeem himself.
Prosecutors rejected the defense’s claims.
“There has been no accountability or remorse shown,” said Loren, adding that the incident was part of a broader pattern of abuse and denial of medical care by Weaver.
Loren also said Kassceen Weaver’s victims included people other than Adon.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, Adon’s grandmother lamented the fact that she would never truly get to know her grandson. In another statement, Adon’s brother said he was in foster care, attending therapy and having panic attacks due to the trauma of the incident.
Adon’s brother is now “missing his brother to grow up with, to play sports with,” Loren said. “These are the things the defendant took away from him.”
The 6-foot-3 Kassceen Weaver was a two-year basketball starter as a guard at UR after transferring from Wisconsin. Weaver averaged 14.1 points as a junior in 1993-94. After averaging 17.8 points as a senior in 1994-95, he was named first-team All-Colonial Athletic Association. Weaver was a Spiders’ co-captain as a senior.
Bill Dooley, who coached Kassceen Weaver at UR, said near the conclusion of Weaver’s senior season: “He’s our go-to guy. We go to him when we need a basket. We go to him when we need to get the ball inbounds. We go to him when we need to break a press. We go to him when we need to stop the other team’s best player. We go to him for everything.”
Kassceen Weaver as a senior was one of the Spiders’ few experienced players on an 8-20 team that frequently used five freshmen and a sophomore center, Rick Edwards, who is now Richmond’s police chief. Weaver, who graduated with a finance degree, went on to play professionally in Poland.
