Lincoln Police say 25-year-old Francisco Alvis was the victim of a deadly shooting on July 5 in the parking lot of Russ’s Market parking lot near South Coddington Avenue and West A Street. LPD Captain Ben Miller says they responded to a 911 call of shots fired around 10:00 p.m.
“Investigators interviewed witnesses and reviewed surveillance video from the scene,” Miller says. “That video showed the victim meeting the suspect in the parking lot where the two sat in the victim’s white pickup truck.”
Miller says through their investigation it was determined that Alvis was meeting 20-year-old Ge’Auvieon Crayton of Lincoln to deliver marijuana. He says Alvis was then shot inside his vehicle. “Alvis ran to a maroon Jeep that had arrived in the parking lot and held onto the driver’s side door as it drove away. He let go near the intersection of West ‘A’ and S. Folsom where witnesses found him.”
Alvis was shot several times and died at the hospital. “He was located with a fully loaded 9mm handgun that was on ‘safe’ and no live round in the chamber,” Miller says. “Crayton exited Alvis’s vehicle and drove off in a silver Jeep, the same vehicle he arrived in.”
Crime Scene Investigators found a bullet hole in the driver’s door of Alvis’s truck and determined the gun was fired from inside the vehicle in the direction of the driver’s seat. A spent 9mm handgun casing was found on the pavement outside of the vehicle and a single slug was found on the ground that was consistent with a 40-caliber handgun.
The maroon Jeep Alvis grabbed onto also had a single bullet hole in the driver’s door. Crayton was found near the intersection of 25th and Holdrege Saturday night where he was taken into custody without incident. A search warrant conducted at his residence found live rounds that matched the calibers found at the scene and a handgun magazine.
The investigation is continuing and anyone with information can call the non-emergency number at 402-441-6000 or if you would like to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 402-475-3600.
Ge’Auvieon Crayton (Photo Lincoln Police)