Rhomel Crossman with his mother. {GoFundMe}
A former Coconut Creek High School football star and his family were robbed of their belongings in Northern California Saturday as he prepared to register for college classes.
Rhomel Crossman, 18, and his family had just arrived in the Bay Area to drop Crossman off at Lincoln University in downtown Oakland – where Crossman had committed to playing football – when thieves broke into their rental car.
The family had parked the Nissan Rogue near the university around 6:15 p.m. and stopped at a nearby Jamaican restaurant to pick up food. When they returned about 15 minutes later, the Rogue’s windows had been smashed, and their suitcases had been stolen.
“Our passports, money, my son’s laptop, and personal documents were all stolen,” Nerissa Murray, Crossman’s mother, wrote on a GoFundMe page.
Murray said she hopes to raise money to help her son after the robbery, in which thieves got away with $3,000, a sleep apnea machine, three passports, social security cards, Crossman’s birth certificate, a laptop computer, and his high school diploma.
“This has left us very devastated,” Murray wrote. “We are kindly asking for your help because my son needs to resume school.”
Murray told media in Oakland that a witness had seen a masked man driving a car in the area.
She phoned the police to report the vehicle burglary but said they did not send an officer and told her to file a report at the station instead.
As a result of her family’s experiences in Oakland, Murray has decided to pull Crossman out of Lincoln University.
“I have to bring back my son to Florida because it’s not safe here,” she told KTVU.
Murray’s fundraising campaign had raised $3,602 toward a $10,000 goal as of Friday night.
Crossman, a standout linebacker and defensive tackle at Coconut Creek High School, was part of the 2023 team that won a district championship.
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