John Crawford III, nicknamed “Trey” by his dad, was a 22-year-old Ohioan who worked as a temp, doing odd jobs ranging from telemarketing to manual labor. He regularly visited his dad, a probation officer in Tennessee. After the birth of his second son, Trey decided he needed to go back to school, with dad pestering him to choose his alma mater, Kentucky State.
John Crawford III was murdered by police on August 5, 2014, in a Wal-Mart while talking on a phone. In to buy supplies to make s’mores for a family cook-out, he also picked up a BB gun/air rifle from the sporting goods section. Responding to repeated 9-1-1 calls that John was threatening customers with a gun (claims caller would later recant when store video indicated he was lying), cops turned up, went directly to John, and shot him twice without ever identifying themselves as police. The cops were never charged with any crime.
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