A gunman accused of killing a University of Alabama student, a dad of three, and a dog inside the home they were pet-sitting was known to his victims as a former co-worker, cops have revealed.

De’Kendrick Crawford, 24, was charged with capital murder after Jazmine Alexis Bates, 22, and her pal Jose Felix Alvarez-Duenas, 31, were found ᴅᴇᴀᴅ inside a Brookwood, Ala, home on Monday, WVTM reported.

Bates and Alvarez-Duenas, who both worked at a Tuscaloosa restaurant, were discovered inside the property – after the homeowner, who was out of the US, spotted someone suspicious on her back porch in the early hours when she checked her home security cameras.

“We were able to identify who that suspicious person was that was seen on the doorbell cameras,” Jack Kennedy, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Captain, said Tuesday.

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“That person turned out to be an acquaintance of everyone there, including the primary resident, they used to all work together at a local business.