Former Georgia player Akhil Crumpton arrested for murder

A former Georgia player has been arrested in connection to a murder. Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports

Former Georgia football player Akhil Crumpton arrested for murder

By Chelena Goldman | Last updated Mar 16, 2022 2:27 PM ET

Former University of Georgia football player Akhil Crumpton has been arrested in connection to the 2021 murder of gas station clerk Elijah Wood, the Oconee County Sheriff's Office announced on Wednesday.

"Through countless hours of painstaking investigative work, we finally have the information we have been waiting on," the statement reads.

Breaking: Oconee County Sheriff's Office says former UGA football player Akhil Crumpton murdered Elijah James Wood at the RaceTrac on Hwy 441 on March 19, 2021. pic.twitter.com/bMqLWI5R4t
— Dayne Young (@dayneyoung) March 16, 2022

Wood was shot and killed by an armed and fully masked assailant on March 19, 2021. While the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshals and District Attorney Investigators, among others, collaborated on the investigation, the case didn't receive a break until last month when two shell casings from the shooting were matched to casings found at another shooting in Philadelphia in which Crumpton is the suspect. The shootings occurred in the same time frame in 2021, the Athens Banner-Herald said.

BREAKING: Oconee County Sheriff's Office arrests former UGA football player Ahkil Crumpton in connection with the 2021 shooting death of RaceTrac clerk Elijah Wood.

Screenshots taken from OCSO Facebook.

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— Athens Banner-Herald (@onlineathens) March 16, 2022