PULASKI COUNTY, Ark.– The family of a pregnant mother murdered with her boyfriend, in front of her toddler refuses to give up searching for justice.
Alexis Crawford, who was five months pregnant, and her boyfriend were murdered in 2012.
The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office confirms the case remains open in 2019.
Monday marked 7 years since the triple murder.
For the first time since the triple murder, Crawford’s family allowed our reporter Price McKeon to meet Crawford’s child and introduce him to the world in hopes it keeps the case alive.
We first met Mark Everett when he was 18-months-old in May of 2012.
He’s now a 3rd grader who loves to ride his dirt bike
“I’m about to be in 4th,” Mark said.
People might miss the Pulaski County boy zoom by if they blink.
He’s a 9-year-old with few words to say.
“Yeah,” he replied to a question.
But one thing the 9-year-old told us may explain why.
“She died in the house and she got shot in her stomach too and head,” he said.
His pregnant mother and her boyfriend were shot and killed in front of him when he was a toddler in their home on Reed Road in Pulaski County.
“I don’t remember her that much but I know somebody who do [sic],” he said.
Crawford’s family who raised him picked May 6, 2019- the 7th anniversary of the crimes- to allow the child to talk to people.
“Maybe somebody will a look at this child’s face and see the hurt and the pain in him (and say something,” Shedreka Harris said.
Hariss is his mother’s cousin.
“He’s going on 9-years-old. He lost his mom at 18-months-old to something that had nothing to do with him or her. And maybe somebody will come forward. I know there are some people with a conscience around here. I hope there is any way,” she said.
They try to let the kid be a kid.
“I don’t like to do chores,” he told us.
But in the back of their minds, they know Pulaski County deputies still haven’t found the person or people who took Mark’s mom from him.
Harris said, “How do we know some of these people that we’re walking around or looking at or talking to everyday… on an everyday basis or meeting or seeing in the streets… how do I know they’re not the killer?”
The murders also took something that pictures can’t show.
“Like every time I make wins she comes in my head,” Mark mentioned.
The child likes to play videos games. The one he particularly likes is one that reminds him of his murdered mother.
PCSO said there is a $1000 reward offered by CrimeStoppers in this case.
If you have any information contact the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office.