Brandon Bernard was an American man convicted of the 1999 robbery, kidnapping, and murder of Henri Valentin. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection on October 6, 2007 for this murder which he committed during a bank robbery in Memphis. But on April 15th 2017 he died of natural causes.

Brandon Bernard visited a woman’s home with two companions. The three men proceeded to rob the house, murder the woman and her young daughter, and sexually assault the injured 13-year old girl before fleeing.

Brandon was sentenced to death for his part in this crime. In 2006 during a failed suicide attempt, he caused himself major injuries from which he died two months later without ever being executed.

In 1999, at age 17 years old Brandon Bernard concealed himself near a local Internet café as he watched for an opportunity that no one would miss year after year of just waiting for people to come by him so that he could catch them unawares beat them up kill them stab them shoot them dispose of their bodies or just simply perhaps sexually use.