{"id":10301,"date":"2019-11-19T17:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=10301"},"modified":"2019-11-19T17:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:21:05","slug":"death-of-clark-atlanta-student-alexis-crawford-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/death-of-clark-atlanta-student-alexis-crawford-sparks-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Clark Atlanta student Alexis Crawford sparks outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deja Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Managing Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Crawford went missing on Oct. 30, which was the last day that her family heard from her.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaby I love you, baby\u201d her father, Bobby Wright said at a news conference a week ago. \u201cJust come home baby, just come home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford\u2019s parents filed a missing person’s report on Nov. 1 and unfortunately, seven days later their lives changed for the worst.<\/p>\n

Atlanta investigators revealed that the student was killed early on Oct. 31 by her roommate and her roommate\u2019s boyfriend, where her body was found at a park in Dekalb County.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields told reporters that one of two suspects in the murder of Crawford led authorities to her body.<\/p>\n

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\u00a011Alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jones said Crawford then went to bed, and the following morning Crawford was not in the apartment. The front door was also locked supposedly.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The medical examiner listed her cause of death as asphyxiation.<\/p>\n

Several tweets and Instagram posts were made in regard to this horrific tragedy.<\/p>\n

@DemetriaLesterC tweeted, \u201cI can’t wait to see Jordyn Jones plead her pathetic case from prison while watching Alexis Crawford\u2019s documentary in a few years. She really murdered that girl and then had the nerve to post her missing flyer all over Instagram. SICKENING!\u201d<\/p>\n

@KillaJay_25\u2019s tweet went viral on the day the suspects were taken in to custody.<\/p>\n

He posted an image of Crawford pictured with Jones and friends that quoted, \u201cWatch the ones closest to you also. The world is just that cruel man.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Nov. 10, Clark Atlanta University’s president uploaded a letter to the parents on their school\u2019s social media outlets to release the news of their fallen CAU student.<\/p>\n

Later that night, hundreds of students came together for a candlelight vigil to mourn the loss of Crawford on their campus.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlexis often referred to Jordyn as her best friend,\u201d he said in the interview. \u201cThat makes the tragedy all the more difficult to understand and reconcile,\u201d Hutchins told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThey knew Jordyn, they liked Jordyn. There was never a reason to suspect that Jordyn would do anything wrong or ill to Alexis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford\u2019s funeral is set for Nov. 16 at 12 p.m. at Hill Chapel Baptist Church in Athens, Ga., where she was raised.<\/p>\n

Brantley and Jones are both charged with felony murder and are being held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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