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Gunshots killed Penn Hills police Officer Crawshaw instantly, pathologist testifies

A gunshot wound just below the left eye of Penn Hills police Officer Michael Crawshaw killed him instantly, a forensic pathologist testified Wednesday.

The wound, which lacerated Crawshaw‘s brain stem and fractured his skull, caused “instant, immediate, incapacitating death,” said Todd Luckasevic, a forensic pathologist at the Allegheny County Medical Examiner‘s Office.

Luckasevic‘s testimony highlighted the fifth day of Ronald Robinson‘s capital murder trial, but forced Crawshaw‘s family from Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski‘s courtroom because of the graphic photographs prosecutors displayed to the jury.

Police say Robinson, 35, of Homewood killed Crawshaw about 8:25 p.m. on Dec. 6, 2009 moments after he killed Danyal Morton, 40, of Penn Hills inside a nearby house over a $500 drug debt.

Prosecutors say Robinson sprayed Crawshaw‘s white and gold police car with 13 rounds from an AK-47 military-style assault rifle, striking the officer twice — once in the head and once in the upper arm.

Earlier Wednesday, Luckasevic testified that Morton was shot four times in the chest and abdomen. Any of the wounds were potentially fatal, Luckasevic said.

Robinson‘s defense attorney Veronica Brestensky has not disputed most of the facts in the case, and Robinson does not deny his role in the shootings. Brestensky, however, believes her client should be convicted of second-degree murder rather than first-degree because Robinson killed Crawshaw while attempting to flee the scene of a felony.

HEYDON J: Mr Crawshaw, it occurs to me, if I can just interrupt for a moment, that this rather technical terrain over which you are passing might usefully be reduced to some note which you could let us have in a few days and Mr Leeming could look at it either before or after if he wanted to add to it. This question obviously comes from your point of view without notice and it might be useful if you had some time to put it to precise form. Are you happy with that?

MR CRAWSHAW: We are happy to do that, your Honour.

LATER: [...]

MR CRAWSHAW: Well, our learned friend would have it that section 218 has no work to do after 1990. That flies in the face of the fact that the legislation was – and maybe this is something that needs some more specificity in the note your Honour asked for.

LATER: [...]

MR CRAWSHAW: There were three, if I can call it Royal Commission-type amendment Acts. There was one in 1995, the Police Service Amendment Act 1995. We have not included that in our materials.

BELL J: Perhaps all of this can be covered by the note.

LATER: [...]

MR CRAWSHAW: Can I just say, I threatened or promised your Honours that I will go to the history. The only thing further I want to say about the history and, once again, this can be perhaps elaborated on more in the note.

HEYDON J: This note is starting to suffer from elephantiasis.

Alwyn Crawshaw. 

World renowned artists, Alwyn and June Crawshaw are currently showing their works in the Picturecraft Gallery.

Alwyn

Alwyn Crawshaw was born at Mirfield, Yorkshire and studied at Hastings School of Art. Alwyn works in watercolour, oils and acrylics. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists, the British Watercolour Society, President of the National Acrylic Painters Association, Founder of the Society of Amateur Artists, and Honorary Member of the United Society of Artists.

 Alwyn has many Books and DVDs available. Over 25 books published by Harper Collins, including "The Artist At Work" (his autobiography). One of his books, "A Brush With Art", was in the best Sellers list for 9 weeks, this has never been achieved before with an art instructional book.

A Public Library Survey shows that one of Alwyn's books is taken out of a library in the UK every 2 minutes.

Alwyn has made eight television series (68 half hour programmes), all have been screened by channel 4,some by the BBC, the Learning Channel and the Travel Channel, and are shown worldwide in countries which include the USA, Canada and Japan. His latest series is called "Crawshaw's Watercolour Cruise", filmed in the Middle East. Alwyn has appeared on various radio and television programmes, including the Gay Byrne Radio Show in Eire, BBC television "Pebble Mill At One", "Daytime Live" and "Spotlight South West". He has also made six very successful teaching videos on painting and was named in 'The Top Ten Best Teachers on Video In America'. He is also a regular contributor to the "leisure Painter" magazine. Alwyn takes painting courses, and lectures throughout Britain and abroad. Alwyn has exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in London. He has won the prize for the best watercolour at the Society of Equestrian Artists annual Exhibition on five occasions.

June

June was born in Woking, Surrey in 1936. She married Alwyn Crawshaw in 1957.

 June paints in watercolour, acrylic and oil and  was made a member of the Society of Women Artists in 1987, a member of the British Watercolour Society in 1988, and a member of the National Acrylic Painters Association in 1997. In the year 2000 she was made an Honorary member of the United Society of Artists.

She exhibits at all the societies' annual exhibitions, and galleries throughout the country. She writes articles for the "Leisure Painter" magazine and has appeared on various radio programmes throughout the country.