Ex-Georgia Wide Receiver Ahkil Crumpton Sentenced to 30 Years for Fatal Shooting
Ahkil Crumpton, former University of Georgia football player, receives a 30-year prison sentence for the shooting death of a gas station employee during a failed robbery attempt.
- Crumpton was convicted of interference with commerce by attempted robbery and making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
- The shooting incident resulted in the death of gas station employee Elijah Wood, who was shot at close range.
- Evidence linked Crumpton to another fatal shooting in Philadelphia, using the same weapon involved in Wood's death.
- Co-defendant James North Armstrong admitted to purchasing the firearm used in the shootings for Crumpton.
- Crumpton's sentence includes 20 years for the attempted robbery charge and an additional 10 years for the false statement charge.