Sentenced: Murdered Uber Driver And Mother Of Four Begged Passenger Not To Kill Her

[Sugar Cookie]

A Pennsylvania Uber driver and mother of four begged a customer to spare her life before he allegedly shot and killed her during a robbery attempt, police said.

“I’m begging you, I have four kids,” 38-year-old Christi Spicuzza pleaded, according to dashcam video of the horrific crime, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

Spicuzza was found dead with a single gunshot wound to the head in a wooded area on February 12 in Monroeville, according to the Allegheny County Police Department.

She had picked up 22-year-old Calvin Crew, of Penn Hills, around 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 10 when 10 minutes into the ride, he allegedly put a gun to the back of her head.

“You’ve got to be joking,” Spicuzza said when she reached back and felt the gun, according to the dashcam footage, detailed in a criminal complaint obtained by the Post-Gazette.

Crew allegedly told her to “keep driving” as Spicuzza pleaded “Come on, I have a family,” the video shows.

“I got a family, too, now drive,” Crew responded.

“Do what I say and everything will be alright,” Crew he said.

The video ends after the suspect grabbed the camera.

Crew was arrested on Thursday and was charged with criminal homicide, robbery and tampering with evidence.

Cops found the dashcam near the area where Crew had allegedly requested to be dropped off, according to the complaint.

Spicuzza’s family had reported her missing on Feb. 11 when she did not return home after taking several Uber fares the night before.

Police said GPS records showed that she had driven through several neighborhoods with Crew allegedly in the backseat.

According to the complaint, Crew received a text from his 22-year-old girlfriend Tanaya Mullen that said “[I’m] not going to jail if we get caught.”

Mullen allegedly told police that her handgun had gone missing after she had brought to a birthday party for one of Crew’s relatives. It’s not clear whether her gun was the one used to kill Spicuzza.

She has not been charged, and police declined to comment further on the message.

Murdered Uber driver and mother of four begged passenger not to kill her

A Pennsylvania Uber driver and mother of four begged a customer to spare her life before he allegedly shot and killed her during a robbery attempt, police said.

nypost.com

The bastard is being held without bail.

 

[Inferus]

When a fare isn't fair.

 

[Mountaineer95]

So his family is so much more important than her family that it’s totally justified for him to kill her. What a narcissistic, entitled bastard. He can fucking rot. This is deserving of the death penalty IMO.

 

[rushman]

Fry him

 

[Sugar Cookie]

This man and his lawyers are all pieces of shit. I hope he gets a life sentence with no mercy.

An Allegheny County judge this week said that the Pitcairn man accused of killing an Uber driver did not have the right to privacy inside the car where he attacked the woman.

Calvin Crew, 24, is scheduled for trial in the death penalty case in January before Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski.

Crew is accused of killing Christina Spicuzza on Feb. 10, 2022, after he ordered a ride from her through his girlfriend’s Uber account.

Police said that Spicuzza, 38, of Turtle Creek, picked up Crew in Pitcairn around 9:15 p.m. As she neared the drop-off location about 15 minutes later, police said Crew pulled out a handgun, grabbed her by the hair and held the weapon to the back of her head.

Crew ordered her to stop in a wooded area along Rosecrest Drive in Monroeville, where police said he killed her.

Spicuzza’s body was found two days later.

As part of the case against Crew, investigators said they recovered the car’s dashboard camera, which captured the moments leading up to Spicuzza’s death.

His defense attorneys argued at a hearing in September that the in-car camera violates Pennsylvania’s wiretap statute, which requires people to be notified that they are being recorded.

Public defender Andy Howard said Crew never gave consent to be recorded.

Assistant District Attorney Emma Schoedel told the court that it would have been clear from inside the vehicle that the camera, which had two lenses — one facing outside and the other into the passenger compartment — was recording.

It had a display screen that was visible inside the car.

In findings issued Tuesday, Borkowski said Crew did not prove that he had an expectation of privacy inside the car.

“Further, given the totality of the circumstances, it is clear that the defendant had actual knowledge he was being recorded,” Borkowski wrote. “The camera’s display and (Crew’s) removal and disposal of the camera all establish the defendant’s knowledge of the recording device. As such, no notice was required.”

As part of the same court order, Borkowski denied several other motions by Crew, including one to suppress his police statement four days after Spicuzza was killed.

Video footage before Uber driver’s killing in Monroeville can be used in court, judge rules

An Allegheny County judge this week said that the Pitcairn man accused of killing an Uber driver did not have the right to privacy inside the car where he attacked the woman. Calvin Crew, 24, is scheduled for trial in the death penalty case in January before Common Pleas Judge

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[Sugar Cookie]

A 24-year-old man in Pennsylvania will spend the rest of his days behind bars for kidnapping, robbing, and ultimately killing an Uber driver and mother of four.

Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski on Monday ordered Calvin Crew to serve life in a state correctional facility without parole for the “brutal, senseless execution” of Christina Spicuzza, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Following a four-day trial, a group of 12 jurors on Feb. 10 found Crew guilty of first-degree murder in the cold-blooded shooting. He was also convicted on counts of kidnapping, robbery, carrying a firearm without a license, inflicting serious bodily injury, theft of a motor vehicle, and tampering with evidence.

The verdict was handed down exactly three years after the fatal shooting. Under state law, a conviction for first-degree murder results in a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

Dashcam footage from inside of Spicuzza’s vehicle showed Crew, wearing a full black ski mask, sitting in the backseat of the car behind Spicuzza, then slide to the center of the backseat and put a gun to the victim’s head. Spicuzza can be seen taking her right hand off the steering wheel and feeling the barrel of the gun pressed against her before pleading with Crew.

“Come on man, I’ve got a family. What are you doing?” she asks.

“I’ve got a family too. Now drive,” Crew responds.

Crew continues to demand that Spicuzza “drive” as she pleads with him to stop, telling him: “I’ve got four kids.”

“Do what I say, and everything will be OK,” Crew tells her at one point, then reaches up and grab the camera from the dash.

The dashcam was found by police five days after the victim’s body was discovered.

Authorities said that Crew’s girlfriend had been having trouble sending him money via an app just before the murder. The following day, Crew texted her, “Im not going to jail if we get caught,” authorities said.

Prosecutors said there was a “trail of overwhelming digital and video evidence” that led to Crew’s conviction.

“The evidence admitted at trial included 422 individual exhibits submitted to the jury along with testimony from Crew’s girlfriend, who had purchased the Uber ride for him and dashcam video from inside Spicuzza’s car depicting Crew holding a gun to the back of Spicuzza’s head telling her to ‘keep driving,'” the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release following the guilty verdict. “Further evidence included Crew’s fingerprint, cell phone GPS records, Uber records, the bullet casing and license plate readers used to track the movements of the car. ”

Man who executed Uber driver and mother of 4 as she pleaded for her life learns his fate

Calvin Crew was sentenced to life in a Pennsylvania prison for kidnapping and executing his Uber driver, Christina Spicuzza, a mother of four.

lawandcrime.com

He should have gotten the death penalty.

 

[thuumpr]

This man and his lawyers are all pieces of shit. I hope he gets a life sentence with no mercy.

Video footage before Uber driver’s killing in Monroeville can be used in court, judge rules

An Allegheny County judge this week said that the Pitcairn man accused of killing an Uber driver did not have the right to privacy inside the car where he attacked the woman. Calvin Crew, 24, is scheduled for trial in the death penalty case in January before Common Pleas Judge

triblive.com

WTF! He has an expectation of privacy? What could he possibly do privately that he wouldn't do in front of a camera?

 

[runninfawn]

WTF! He has an expectation of privacy? What could he possibly do privately that he wouldn't do in front of a camera?

in my opinion every public including taxis, ride share etc, should be equiped with cams for the protection of the users and drivers also... if you want privacy then get your own darn car...but even then you have street cams, cams that reads your license plates, door bell cams, other people's dashboard cams, your own cell phone is equipped with gps etc. recording your whereabouts..

 

[Sugar Cookie]

in my opinion every public including taxis, ride share etc, should be equiped with cams for the protection of the users and drivers also... if you want privacy then get your own darn car...but even then you have street cams, cams that reads your license plates, door bell cams, other people's dashboard cams, your own cell phone is equipped with gps etc. recording your whereabouts..

It would not have saved this woman - sadly.

The death penalty is the only way to get these dregs of society to know they will not allowed to be a danger to people.

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Hopefully no governor in the future grants clemency to this piece of shit on the basis of his being Black.

 

[DaveL]

I have to wonder, what was his haul for murdering and robbing an Uber driver? How much money was he willing to take an innocent life for?

 

[Spider]

Shoulda just threw him in a wood chipper.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

in my opinion every public including taxis, ride share etc, should be equiped with cams for the protection of the users and drivers also... if you want privacy then get your own darn car...but even then you have street cams, cams that reads your license plates, door bell cams, other people's dashboard cams, your own cell phone is equipped with gps etc. recording your whereabouts..

She had a camera in her car.

Warning

 

[runninfawn]

oh yes i know she had a cam but he tried to have the video thrown out of court cuz he didn't give permission to be recorded ...he didn't get away with it but that doesn't mean the next one won't get away with it .. so therefor my comment of making it "the law" that all public transportation has a dash cam recording both outside and inside