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mountaineer:
Uber driver killed, left in Monroeville pleaded for life during robbery, police say
Megan Tomasic, Megan Guza And Ryan Deto
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022 8:34 p.m.
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
--- Quote ---Christi Spicuzza pleaded for her life as the man in the back seat of her Nissan Sentra pressed a gun against her head, telling the man that she had a family and four kids at home, court paperwork shows.

Spicuzza, an Uber driver, had picked up 22-year-old Calvin Crew about 9:15 p.m. Feb. 10 and was supposed to take him from Pitcairn to Penn Hills, according to a criminal complaint filed against Crew.

“You’ve got to be joking,” Spicuzza, 38, told Crew as she took her right hand off the wheel to touch the gun against her head, the complaint said.

Police said a dashboard camera in Spicuzza’s car, purchased for her by her longtime partner, captured the exchange between Spicuzza and Crew before Crew took down the camera. After that, investigators said, several payment and banking apps were accessed on Spicuzza’s phone and she was killed and left in a wooded area in Monroeville. ...

Crew, who was arrested on an unrelated warrant, told police in the interview that he had his girlfriend order the Uber trip for him so he could check for mail at his old address on Pershing Street in Penn Hills, according to the complaint. He said his driver dropped him off at his old address and then drove away, the complaint said. Crew said he retrieved some mail and then walked to a Port Authority bus station in Wilkinsburg to catch a bus toward home.

Police said no security cameras showed Crew in any of the places he said he had gone. ...
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I'd always heard driving a taxi (which is pretty much the same as Uber) was one of the most dangerous jobs one could have.

mystery-ak:
 Uber driver pleaded for her life before she was killed in Monroeville, dashcam video shows
Courtesy of Pitcairn Police

Calvin Crew, 22, of Penn Hills, is charged with criminal homicide in Christi Spicuzza's death

Jesse Bunch and Mick Stinelli
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Feb 18, 2022


An Uber driver begged for her life and pleaded that she had four children before a Penn Hills man fatally shot her during what investigators believe was a robbery attempt, according to a transcript of dashcam video.



Allegheny County police on Wednesday night charged Calvin Crew, 22, in the killing of 38-year-old Christi Spicuzza, whose body was found in Monroeville last weekend.

Mr. Crew is charged with homicide, robbery and tampering with evidence.

In a criminal complaint, police described how Mr. Crew allegedly used his girlfriend's phone to order an Uber and held a gun to Ms. Spicuzza’s head as she begged him to lower the weapon.

On a video retrieved from Ms. Spicuzza’s dashcam, investigators saw her arriving to pick up Mr. Crew on Feb. 11. He entered the vehicle and produced a handgun, pointing it at the back of her head, the complaint says.


Calvin Crew(Allegheny County Jail)

He told her to keep driving. When she reached back and felt the gun, she responded, “You’ve got to be joking,” the complaint reads.

Mr. Crew reiterated that he had a gun, and she told him that she had a family, the complaint says.

“I got a family too,” Mr. Crew said. “Now drive.”

“I’m begging you, I have four kids,” she said at one point.

He repeatedly told her to “complete the trip” as she again asked him to put the gun down. He kept the gun pointed at the back of her neck.

“Please take that off of me,” she said. He reached forward and took her cell phone off of the dashboard, the complaint says.

“Do what I say, and everything will be all right,” he told her. The video ends as Mr. Crew reaches forward and grabs the dashcam, the complaint says.

Police found Ms. Spicuzza, of Turtle Creek, dead with a single gunshot wound to the head in a wooded area near the 500 block of Rosecrest Drive.

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https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/02/17/uber-driver-killed-christi-spicuzza-monroeville-police-arrest-calvin-crew-homicide-robbery-charges/stories/202202170148

catfish1957:
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Fishrrman:
Look at the pictures.
I know what you're thinking.
Even though you can't say it or type it.
Stop feeling bad about that.
Your disgust is both rational and justified.

goatprairie:

--- Quote from: Fishrrman on February 19, 2022, 10:03:18 pm ---Look at the pictures.
I know what you're thinking.
Even though you can't say it or type it.
Stop feeling bad about that.
Your disgust is both rational and justified.

--- End quote ---
If anyone reads the news from the CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX outlets for big cities with large black populations as I do every day knows that any person who picks up a black male takes a huge chance with their life. Those are just the facts.
There's a reason many cabbies and delivery people will either not pick up black males or refuse to go into black sections of many cities. It's simply not worth their lives.
This is just another example why.
I never read stories of whites, Hispanic, Asian, or American-Indian males shooting defenseless  women whom they don't know who are simply doing their job.
This is basically a specialty of black males.
People have to have the courage to speak out about these things. The problem of violent black criminality should not be swept under the rug.

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