CHICAGO (WLS) — A young mother of newborn twins is lifeless after her boyfriend allegedly shot and killed her earlier this month in Chicago’s Bronzeville community on the South Side.The grieving mother and siblings of 21-year-old Crystal Crockett came to Chicago police headquarters from Downers Grove to speak solely with ABC7 Sunday.
“My daughter did not deserve this. I want the killer to go to jail endlessly,” said Crockett’s mother Kylia Robinson.
They stated Crockett was just two years away from getting her nursing stage at Malcolm X College and used to be delighted to be a new mom to her twins, Iyla and Italy.
“Crystal did not deserve this. Crystal is a beautiful individual. Crystal was very introverted, she used to be very respectful,” mentioned Crockett’s brother Creston Robinson.
The father of the small children, 31-year-old Elijah Clippard, shot Crockett in chilly blood in an alley at East 45th Street and South Wabash Avenue on town’s South Side on June 15, according to prosecutors.
Crockett had given beginning to the couple’s baby women on March 21, however they've by no means left the clinic, in step with activist Andrew Holmes. They are nonetheless in the NICU at Rush University Medical Center, prosecutors stated.
Hospital video showed the couple at the health center the day prior to, in addition to surveillance video of the couple early the next morning. Clippard is observed using a automobile with Crockett within the passenger seat ahead of parking the auto in an empty lot at the back of an condominium complicated where Crockett lived within the 4500 block of South Wabash, in line with prosecutors.
Clippard is then observed getting out of the automobile with a gun earlier than shooting her several occasions. Proescutors stated he was once “seemingly agitated” and looked around “as if to make sure no person is there.”
Crockett tried to run away as “smoke from the gunfire is observed filling the auto,” however Clippard then shoots her a number of extra times, prosecutors mentioned.
Witnesses additionally said they heard a gun shot round 6:15 a.m. and came out to find Crockett, in step with Chicago police.
Clippard used to be later seen on CTA surveillance at a nearby educate station in a while after the shooting, prosecutors added.
Crockett’s circle of relatives said they had been courting since ultimate summer.
Holmes said the new mother would seek advice from her small children every day.
“She did what she needed to do for her babies. She was an impressive citizen, Creston stated.
Crockett is described as a worrying soul with a shiny future. She had acted as home-aide to her grandparents and liked the caring arts.
Her daughters, necessarily parent-less now, remain on oxygen however the circle of relatives hopes they will be capable of carry them home soon.
“She used to be truly happy to be a mother. She went all out, she was once in point of fact proud of the girls. That’s what she actually sought after – women. She got her dream,” stated Crockett’s sister Nivea Crockett.
None of the family members knew the alleged killer smartly, they said, however vow as a group to take care of Iyla and Italy, and make sure they know the way a lot their mother cherished them.
“My daughter used to be a beautiful person and I’m going to leave out her,” Crockett’s mother mentioned.
The circle of relatives has arrange a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral bills.
Clippard was arrested Wednesday at his Far South Side place of dwelling and is being held without bond on a homicide fee after a court docket look Thursday.
He is anticipated again in courtroom July 14.
The Sun-Times Media report contributed to this newsletter.
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