If not for those meddeling patriots alerting a cop that there was a shooter on that roof and that cop alerting that sniper and that sniper blowing yearicks brains out Yearick would have been snuck out of there and Crooks would have been swatted within hours.
Think that over and put the puzzle pieces together.
So crooks is alive somewhere?
Maybe but because he looked so much like Yearick they are using him to take the fall. They usually kill off the patsy.
They would kidnap Crooks, when they know how Yearick dies, they would kill Crooks the same way then switch the bodies.