University of Alabama student, father of 3 killed; suspect found hiding in attic, police say

An Alabama antheral accused of gunning down a University of Alabama student, a begetter of 3 and a household canine was captured hiding successful an attic crawl abstraction conscionable hours aft the victims were recovered wrong a home, authorities said.

De'Kendrick Crawford, 24, is charged with superior execution successful the July 6 killings of Jazmine Alexis Bates, 22, and Jose Felix Alvarez-Duenas, 31, according to the Tuscaloosa County Violent Crimes Unit.

The probe began aft a homeowner, who was retired of the country, became disquieted erstwhile she couldn't scope Alvarez-Duenas, whom she had asked to house-sit and attraction for her dog.

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Booking photograph of De'Kendrick Crawford pursuing his apprehension successful Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. (Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office)

After checking her doorbell cameras, she spotted a antheral acting suspiciously connected her backmost structure during the overnight hours and asked her landlord to interaction police.

When Brookwood officers arrived for a payment check, they recovered Alvarez-Duenas dormant conscionable wrong the beforehand door.

As they cleared the home, they discovered Bates dormant wrong a chamber closet. Both had been shot. The homeowner's canine had besides been killed.

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Bates, Alvarez-Duenas and the homeowner each knew each different from moving astatine a section business, investigators said. Crawford had besides antecedently worked determination and knew each three.

Doorbell camera footage, physics grounds and different carnal grounds rapidly led detectives to Crawford, who was tracked to a relative's flat successful adjacent Northport.

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Rather than surrender, Crawford barricaded himself wrong the apartment, prompting a ample effect from local, authorities and national instrumentality enforcement.

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Jose Felix Alvarez-Duenas poses with his 3 young children successful an undated household photo. (GoFundMe)

Officers yet breached the flat and recovered him hiding successful an attic crawl abstraction astir 10 hours aft the victims were discovered.

According to jailhouse records, Crawford was booked July 7 connected charges of superior execution involving 2 oregon much persons and discharging a firearm into an occupied building.

The homicide probe besides uncovered that Crawford was already wanted connected an unrelated felony warrant tied to a May shooting adjacent the University of Alabama.

Police allege Crawford fired respective rounds into an occupied bureau gathering adjacent Coleman Coliseum aft being fired from a contractor occupation connected campus.

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Friends, household and erstwhile coworkers remembered University of Alabama pupil Jazmine Bates aft her death. (GoFundMe)

Authorities emphasized that the contractor presumption was unrelated to the section concern wherever helium had worked alongside the victims.

The killings stunned friends and erstwhile coworkers astatine Buffalo Phil's Wings, wherever Bates, Alvarez-Duenas, the homeowner and Crawford had each antecedently worked together.

"It is with shattered hearts that we stock the unimaginable nonaccomplishment of 2 beloved members of our enactment family," the edifice wrote successful a Facebook tribute. "Felix and Jazmine were much than employees—they were family."

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Jose Felix Alvarez-Duenas smiles portion holding a vessel successful an undated photo. (Felix Alvarez Facebook)

The edifice remembered Alvarez-Duenas arsenic "a devoted azygous begetter to 3 beauteous children," adding that "nothing successful this satellite made him prouder than being their dad."

Bates, who moved to Alabama from Chicago, was expected to postgraduate from the University of Alabama successful December. The edifice said she "came present with large dreams and was determined to physique a agleam future," remembering her arsenic idiosyncratic with "a beauteous heart, and a grin that made everyone astir her consciousness welcome."

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University of Alabama pupil Jazmine Alexis Bates smiles successful an undated photo. (GoFundMe)

"Our hearts are with Felix's 3 children, some of their families, their friends, and everyone whose lives they touched," the edifice wrote. "Felix and Jazmine...you volition ne'er beryllium forgotten."

The University of Alabama besides mourned Bates' death.

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"We widen our deepest sympathy to household and friends of Jazmine Bates aft this tragedy," the assemblage said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "UA unit person contacted her household to connection support. Counseling and enactment resources are disposable to impacted students done the Office of Student Care and Well Being."

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The assemblage besides thanked section instrumentality enforcement and the University of Alabama Police Department for their response.

GoFundMe pages person been created to assistance enactment Alvarez-Duenas' 3 children and to assistance Bates' household with ceremonial expenses and proscription costs to instrumentality her to her hometown of Chicago.