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Posted: April 2, 2007

Grand Jury Indicts Suspect in N.C. Central Student's Death

Durham, N.C. — A former Guiliford County 911 dispatcher was indicted Monday in connection with the shooting death of a North Carolina Central University student in January.

A grand jury indicted Shannon Crawley for murder. She's accused of killing Denita Smith, a graduate student from Charlotte.

Smith was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell in the Campus Crossings Apartments complex on East Cornwallis Street in Durham on the morning of Jan. 4. Investigators later said she was killed by a single gunshot wound to the back of her head.

Crawley, a single mother with two elementary school-age children, lived blocks from Smith's fiancé, a Greensboro police officer, who told investigators Crawley was stalking him.

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I feel sorry for the kids.....

Midnight Nurse
April 3, 2007 10:50 p.m.

I meant "stalked" the victim, not talked. (Note to self : pay more attention to typing accurately)

Proud Republican .. so sue me
April 3, 2007 12:03 p.m.

I've never heard one word about the slain girl's fiance' having anything to do with the defendant. She was a 911 Dispatcher (or something like that) and he was a Police Officer but the last I heard on the new or read in the papers, he didn't even know the defendant. It looks to me like she had a thing for him and talked both him and his girlfriend and the girlfriend wound up dead. I feel as much sorrow for him as I do everyone else involved in this tragedy.

Proud Republican .. so sue me
April 3, 2007 12:02 p.m.

It was never confirmed if the husband wsa having an affair with the defendant but that she had been stalking him and the girlfriend for a period of time, even to the point of moving into his same neighborhood. I want justice very much for this case but there seems to be a few pieces missing from this story. Regardless a very beautiful smart women lost her life over nothing. VERY VERY SAD!