07-05-2025
Uber-driving mom-of-four begs for life before her passenger shoots her dead
Horrifying dashcam footage has captured the final moments of a female Uber driver pleading for her life at gunpoint before being fatally shot by her passenger.
Calvin Crew, 25, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Monday following the 2022 murder of mom-of-four Christi Spicuzza, 38, outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Footage of the terrifying encounter begins with Spicuzza driving Crew, then 22, who was wearing a light-colored hoodie and a black mask covering all but his eyes.
Minutes into the ride, Crew grabbed Spicuzza's shoulder from the backseat and pressed a black handgun to the back of her head, demanding she 'keep driving'.
She gasped: 'You've got to be joking,' but Crew grabbed her ponytail and chillingly told her: 'This is a gun. Keep driving.'
Spicuzza then told him: 'No it's not. Come on, I have a family, what are you doing? Please stop.'
But the attacker calmly replied: 'Drive. Drive the car, miss,' keeping the gun trained on her head.
What happened next remains unseen, but the ride ended with Spicuzza's brutal execution.
Crew, an ex-con who was released on a firearms charge just days before Spicuzza's murder, used his girlfriend Tanaya Mullen's phone to order the Uber to 139 Brinton Avenue in Pitcairn at 9.14pm on February 11, 2022.
During the trip, Crew reportedly received a message from Mullen reading: 'I'm not going to jail if we get caught.'
Spicuzza's body was found the day after the Uber incident with a single gunshot wound to the back of her head in a wooded area near the 500 block of Rosecrest Drive.
Her fiance Brandon Marto reported her missing on February 11. The recovered dashcam was found just a tenth of a mile from where she picked up Crew.
Crew was eventually convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery. Although prosecutors sought the death penalty, Spicuzza's family asked that he be spared and the murderer was sentenced to life, with an additional 13 to 26 years for kidnapping and robbery charges.
Spicuzza's mother Cindy said: 'You should have the death penalty but we showed mercy. You executed her. No mercy, no remorse. It was abhorrent. It was murder.'
