Buffalo, NY (WIVB)-A suspect was taken in custody after the police said that a 44-year-old Buffalo woman was shot and killed on Thursday morning.
Rickey Crouch, a 49-year-old Buffalo man, is in custody after he was cast out of his vehicle after a police pursuit on the i-90, said the sources of the State Police. He reportedly crashed into a non -involved vehicle and after being evaluated for injuries, he will be transferred to the Buffalo Police Department.
Earlier Thursday, the Buffalo police said that civil servants received a shots, shortly after 12:00 to the 600 block of Ogden Street.
The victim's family, Amanda Thompson, spoke with WIVB News 4 and shared memories of their beloved family member.
“Funny, caring and just a good definition of a mother,” said Thompson's 14-year-old son, Kyrell.
Thompson's mother, Muril had, WIVB News 4 said that Crouch broke into the house a month earlier, items stealed and her son, Kyrell, attacked. No charges were filed for that incident.
“He tried to get me on the side of him and I said,” Well, Rick, I just have to say that I have just seen my grandson and he has bruised over him. And then he started to panic and say: “You can move better. You are also in danger,” said.
Had said her daughter and crouch dated four years before they separated.
“He wouldn't leave her alone,” said. “He kept going to the house repeatedly, called her. One day he let Amanda come to my house, and my daughter and I, take us there and (he tells) that he would commit suicide. He didn't go to prison.”
Officials said that the criminal history of Crouch goes back to 1997, when he was sentenced to at least 23 years in prison for the death of a bystander during a weapon attack with rival gangs.
“As they say, the prison can be a cure for things like this. Prison works, rehabilitation,” said former Erie County Judge Timothy J. Drury in the 1997 conviction.
“We knew what he was doing,” said. “We really believed that he was repented and that it was just a stupid thing that a child did; he was part of a gang. … We never dreamed that he would do this.”
The Buffalo police work together with civil servants in Cheektowaga to find out more about a recent shots with shooting with dismissed incident that they say it can be connected to Crouch. Kyrell told WIVB News 4 that the shots were fired by Crouch about an argument with his sister around an alleged stolen TV for which his mother and crouch both paid.
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