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


Shannon Crawley
Shannon Crawley
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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.....

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

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.

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!

You are a blood thirsty crowd! LOL

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