MAYWOOD, Ill. — Former NFL player Sergio Brown, who has been charged with killing his 73-year-old mother, was denied release during a court hearing on Wednesday.

Brown faces charges of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide after the body of his mother, Myrtle Brown, was discovered near a creek in Maywood, a suburb just west of Chicago.

A medical examiner ruled Myrtle Brown’s death a homicide, and found she was injured during an assault.

At his detention hearing on Wednesday, Cook County Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez denied Sergio Brown pretrial release. He will be detained at Cook County Jail until his next court date on Nov. 22.

More about Sergio Brown’s trial and the murder case.