Deja Davis
Managing Editor
The disappearance of 21-year-old Alexis Crawford led to headlines all over the Internet, but once the whole story came together, it struck a nerve to many.
Crawford went missing on Oct. 30, which was the last day that her family heard from her.
“Baby I love you, baby” her father, Bobby Wright said at a news conference a week ago. “Just come home baby, just come home.”
Crawford’s parents filed a missing person’s report on Nov. 1 and unfortunately, seven days later their lives changed for the worst.
Atlanta investigators revealed that the student was killed early on Oct. 31 by her roommate and her roommate’s boyfriend, where her body was found at a park in Dekalb County.
The two suspects, Barron Brantley, 21, and Jordyn Jones, also 21, were taken into custody and transported to Fulton County jail just days following her murder.
Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields told reporters that one of two suspects in the murder of Crawford led authorities to her body.
Crawford’s roommate, Jordyn Jones, originally told police she’d last seen Crawford just after midnight on Oct. 31, after the two women had gone to the liquor store together, according to 11Alive.
Jones said Crawford then went to bed, and the following morning Crawford was not in the apartment. The front door was also locked supposedly.
Following the arrests, police released that three days before Crawford went missing, she filed a police report against Brantley saying that he sexually assaulted her.
In an already devastating case that continues to make headlines nationally, the latest details exposed a more gruesome take of the final moments of Crawford’s life.
Crawford was strangled and smothered to death with a plastic bag before her remains were placed in a plastic bin and later dumped in a park, according to Fulton County Superior Court documents released on Nov. 12.
Authorities stated that Crawford and her roommate, Jones, were fighting in their off-campus apartment early Oct. 31 when Jones’ boyfriend, Brantley, intervened and choked Crawford until she died.
The medical examiner listed her cause of death as asphyxiation.
Several tweets and Instagram posts were made in regard to this horrific tragedy.
@DemetriaLesterC tweeted, “I can’t wait to see Jordyn Jones plead her pathetic case from prison while watching Alexis Crawford’s documentary in a few years. She really murdered that girl and then had the nerve to post her missing flyer all over Instagram. SICKENING!”
@KillaJay_25’s tweet went viral on the day the suspects were taken in to custody.
He posted an image of Crawford pictured with Jones and friends that quoted, “Watch the ones closest to you also. The world is just that cruel man.”
On Nov. 10, Clark Atlanta University’s president uploaded a letter to the parents on their school’s social media outlets to release the news of their fallen CAU student.
Later that night, hundreds of students came together for a candlelight vigil to mourn the loss of Crawford on their campus.
Crawford was one of 10 children, and her family hosted Jones for Easter and Thanksgiving, a spokesperson of the family Rev. Markel Hutchins told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
“Alexis often referred to Jordyn as her best friend,” he said in the interview. “That makes the tragedy all the more difficult to understand and reconcile,” Hutchins told the newspaper.
He added: “They knew Jordyn, they liked Jordyn. There was never a reason to suspect that Jordyn would do anything wrong or ill to Alexis.”
Crawford’s funeral is set for Nov. 16 at 12 p.m. at Hill Chapel Baptist Church in Athens, Ga., where she was raised.
Brantley and Jones are both charged with felony murder and are being held without bond.
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