R.I.P Markel Crawford. By wayne

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(R.I.P Markel & Jabar) ANOTHER T.M SOLIDER IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN (MARKEL CRAWFORD) THIS IS THE STORY.............. A Germantown High School student is dead and an 18-year-old from his neighborhood has been charged with his murder after an argument Friday night outside a corner store. William Jones of the 6000 block of Magnolia Street was also charged with related offenses in the stabbing of Markel Crawford, 16. Police received a 911 call just after 7 p.m. and found Crawford lying unresponsive on the street near Baynton Street and East Walnut Lane. He had one stab wound in the chest. Fire rescue transported Crawford to the Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 7:16 p.m. "He was a happy child," said his mother, Kelley Kenner, 41. "He never bothered anybody." Kenner said she had given her son about $200 to buy a pair of Timberland boots and Adidas sneakers Friday night. He stopped at a corner store to get a cheesesteak before shopping. "Fifteen minutes later, he was dead," Kenner said yesterday in a phone interview. Police said the Crawford and Jones, who knew each other from the neighborhood, had been arguing at a nearby corner store when Jones stabbed Crawford and then ran away. The nature of the argument was unclear. Jones later called 911 and said that he had been robbed and had stabbed someone, police said. Jones was taken into custody that night. At the scene Friday night, Renee Fredericks, 16, identified herself as Crawford's girlfriend and said he had often joked with people, asking for money that he didn't really need. She said a cousin had told her that Crawford approached someone outside the corner store and "asked for a dollar." The person rebuffed him and then pulled a knife and stabbed the youth in the chest, she said. "He was stabbed for a dollar," Fredericks said. "I guess the boy thought he had a gun and stabbed him for a dollar." No gun was found, police said. Kenner said her son, one of 11 children, was a student at Germantown High School and enjoyed music and drawing. He often played basketball at the Wissahickon Boys and Girls Club. Crawford recently learned he was going to become a father. "He said he wanted to work in a group home," said Kenner, adding that her son had recently been in trouble for using drugs but had turned his life around. He wanted to work with kids going through drug rehabilitation, she said.