Crawley went to school at the University of Colorado, but came out of the tough area of southeastern D.C. Many of men before him did not make it to see their 18th birthday without seeing prison or death. Unfortunately, for Crawley one of them happened to be his best friend.
Crawley had made it out of his neighborhood when he got the news during his freshman year that his best friend Gadgett was shot to death.
“We were real close. They found him in the woods. An older dude shot him. He didn’t even have to man.