Overview

• A court sentenced Dshawn Crawford to 40–80 years after he pleaded guilty to the 2023 stabbings of two sleeping homeless victims, killing one and gravely injuring the other.
• Prosecutors showed surveillance footage of Crawford wearing a black outfit adorned with animal bones as he stabbed one victim 19 times under a tent in North Philadelphia.
• Investigators recovered Crawford’s ritualistic ‘Undertaker’-style clothes, knives and occult materials during a search of his North Philadelphia home.
• District Attorney Larry Krasner said authorities are examining possible links between Crawford’s arrival from North Carolina and unsolved crimes there.
• The DA’s office also charged 27-year-old Naeem Morgan with a series of assaults on unhoused people captured in social media videos.