Brookwood Tragedy: Two Dead, One Arrested | Dayton News

Dayton News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 9, 2026 · 1m

Two people and a dog were found dead in a Brookwood, Alabama home after a frantic wellness check triggered by a missing house-sitter and suspicious doorbell footage. University student Jazmine Alexis Bates and Jose Alvarez-Duenas, who was house-sitting, both suffered fatal gunshot wounds. Authorities quickly zeroed in on De’Kendrick Crawford, whose alleged disposal of evidence in the woods and recovered personal items linked him to the crime. After a tense manhunt, Crawford was caught hiding in an attic crawl space and arrested — but the motive behind the brutal killings remains a chilling…