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Pitcairn -mann, who killed the quarterly driver, who is too life in life

The Pitcairn man, who killed an overloading driver and a mother of four, will spend the rest of his life in prison and another 13-26 years, a judge decided on Monday.

The 26-year-old Calvin Crew, who was convicted of the murder of Christina Spicuzza in 2022 in February for Murder's first degree, did not appear for his own conviction in the Common Pleas Court by Allgheny County by judge Edward J. Borkowski.

Spicuzza's mother fiance and his mother spoke in the conviction.

“I ask the Court to show them the same mercy that they showed my sister when they begged for their lives. None,” Chantelle Spicuzza, the younger sister of the victim, wrote in a statement read by the public prosecutor.

The public prosecutor said that the crew had forced Spicuzza to ferry him through the eastern Allegheny County for almost an hour before he marched into the forest in Monroeville and fatally shot from Turtle Creek.

Some of her last moments were recorded on video of a dashboard camera when she spoke to crew. Spicuzza advocated her life for her life as a crew, which was wearing a black face mask, a hat and a hood, a weapon on her head.

Spicuzza picked up the crew on February 10, 2022 at 9:15 p.m. and should bring it to Penn Hills, according to a criminal complaint submitted against the crew.

The police said the crew killed Spicuzza and left it in a forest area in Monroeville. Subsequently, several payment and bank apps were accessed on Spicuzza's phone.

During the exchange in the car, Spicuzza told the man who was later identified as crew by investigators: “Come on, I have a family.”

The crew told her that according to a criminal complaint. He grabbed her long ponytail in his left hand to control her head and told her to drive.

“I ask you, I have four children,” she pleaded, asked him to take the weapon to take the neck according to the complaint.

The crew told her that she should do what he said and “everything will be fine,” the complaint says. Seconds later, the police said, he reached forward and grabbed the dashboard camera with the right hand. The video ended at 9:34 p.m.

Spicuzza's friend reported that she was missing that night after he had lost contact with her and she had never come home.

Please look after updates in this story.

Paula Reed Ward is a triple reporter who covers the courts of the district of Federal and Allegheny County. She kicked the trib in 2020 after she had spent almost 17 years in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, where she was part of a Pulitzer award winner. She is the author of “Death of Cyanid”. It can be reached at pward@triblive.com.

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