Roosevelt Rankins

Roosevelt Rankins (age 34 at his death) was a Montgomery, Alabama man whose life was marked above all by his role as a father. Public reports identify him as a parent to five children and show that family mattered deeply to those who spoke for him after his death. He also used social media to connect with others, streaming under the name “Crum King,” a presence that friends and viewers recognized.

Those who knew Rankins remember him through the small but meaningful ways people leave their mark — as a son who is named for his father, as a father whose loss was publicly mourned, and as a voice in his neighborhood. In accounts after his death, his father, Roosevelt Rankins Sr., described a grief and determination that spoke to the love of family and to a desire for safer streets for future generations.

Public records and contemporary reporting document the suddenness of his passing on January 23, 2020, and the outpouring of attention that followed. For many in Montgomery and beyond, the images and comments shared online became a way to remember a man known to others as much for his presence and relationship to family as for the brief, tragic way his life ended.

Though formal obituary notices matching his name and the January 23, 2020 date are not publicly available from funeral-home archives that could be located, contemporary news coverage, community memorial pages, and gun-violence tracking sites preserve details that confirm his identity and the deep loss felt by his relatives and children. This remembrance honors Roosevelt Rankins as a father and a person whose life had meaning to family and community. It acknowledges the limits of the public record while keeping the focus on the human life behind the headlines: a father, a son, and a presence who mattered to those closest to him.