In an incredible act of evil, a vindictive Shannon Crawley shot and killed her ex-boyfriend’s new fiancee – and then tried to frame him for the murder.
“She felt that if she couldn’t have him, nobody would, and she wanted him to pay for the hurt she felt he was causing her,” prosecutor David Saacks told The ENQUIRER.
The 28-year-old mother of two worked as a 911 dispatcher in Greensboro, N.C., where her ex-boyfriend, Jermeir Stroud, was a cop.
The two-timing Stroud had been going out with Shannon while he was also dating Denita Smith, a 25-year-old graduate student.
But then Stroud ditched Shannon and got engaged to Denita – igniting a rage that would lead to Denita’s death.
“Shannon could not let him go,” said Saacks. “She began stalking him. Then she saw them in church together and realized she was never going to get him back.”
Shannon went to Denita’s apartment in Durham and shot her once in the back of the head as she was walking down the outside stairs.
“Denita didn’t know Shannon, so she wouldn’t have thought anything about seeing her,” said Saacks. When police quizzed Shannon, she said Stroud killed Denita – and she came up with an elaborate story to support her claim.
She told cops that Stroud had threatened to kill her two children if she didn’t accompany him to Durham on the morning of the murder.
She said he went to Denita’s apartment, got into an argument – and gunned her down.
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