Shaquanta Langley, listed in appellate records once as Shaguanta Langley, was one of the women prosecutors say serial killer Andre Crawford preyed upon on Chicago’s South Side. According to Crawford’s recorded statements shown at trial, he said he and Langley had agreed to exchange cocaine for sex, that she wanted to use the cocaine first, and that he became angry and killed her. Prosecutors also relied on forensic evidence and other victimology to link Langley’s death to a pattern of killings in Englewood and New City.

Crawford was arrested January 28, 2000, and charged in a multi-victim prosecution that included specific first-degree murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault counts for Langley under Cook County case number 00 CR 5456. The jury convicted Crawford on December 10, 2009; Langley’s multiple murder counts were merged into one first-degree murder conviction and the sexual-assault counts into two aggravated criminal sexual assault convictions. The convictions were affirmed by the Illinois Appellate Court on December 16, 2013.

Did anyone who knew Langley in the Englewood or New City neighborhoods have memories or information to share about her life or the circumstances around her death?