15-Year-Old Boy Charged With Uber Driver’s Murder During Carjacking | Crime Alert 6AM 01.05.26
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
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Summary
Police in the metropolitan Atlanta area have arrested a 15-year-old boy for the murder of an Uber drive found dead on a Lawrenceville street on Thursday. The Texas Department of Public Safety has issued an AMBER Alert for a 14-year-old girl believed to be with a 41-year-old man. Three women have been charged in connection with the death of a 6-year-old North Carolina girl who weighed just 27 pounds at death earlier this month. Police in Oregon are searching for an “armed and dangerous” man in connection with an early morning murder on Wednesday. A Ohio dentist and his wife were found shot to death in their home this week, with two small children found unharmed. Sydney Sumner reports.
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| 0:08.1 | I'm Sidney Sumner. |
| 0:09.7 | Police in the metropolitan Atlanta area have arrested a 15-year-old boy for the murder of an Uber |
| 0:15.1 | driver found dead on a Lawrenceville street on Thursday. |
| 0:18.4 | The Lawrenceville Police Department said it was called shortly after |
| 0:21.1 | 5 a.m. about a person lying in the roadway and arrived to find the 58-year-old victim dead from at least |
| 0:26.8 | one gunshot wound. Investigators found ringed doorbell video that showed a black SUV stopping in the |
| 0:32.8 | roadway, dropping off the victim, and then leaving the area. The SUV belonged to the victim, who was an Uber driver. Detectives determined that he had been the victim and then leaving the area. The SUV belonged to the victim who was an |
| 0:38.5 | Uber driver. Detectives determined that he had been the victim of carjacking. By early afternoon, |
| 0:44.2 | they had tracked the SUV to a home in Lilburn some 10 miles away. There, they arrested |
| 0:49.0 | the teen, who was charged as an adult with murder. The victim's identity has not been released |
| 0:54.1 | pending notification of next-of-kin. Police have also not released the killers' is charged as an adult with murder. The victim's identity has not been released pending |
| 0:54.4 | notification of next of kin. Police have also not released the killer's name due to his age. |
| 0:59.9 | The Texas Department of Public Safety has issued an Amber Alert for a 14-year-old girl |
| 1:04.5 | believed to be with a 41-year-old man. Marjorie Gilani Gomez-Morquez was last seen at around |
| 1:10.7 | 8 a.m. Sunday in Plains in the 300 block of 13th Street. |
| 1:14.8 | According to police, she was last seen with Juan Orlando Garcia Sarmiento, 41. |
| 1:20.0 | According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Maruri is described as a Hispanic female who stands 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 125 pounds. |
| 1:29.6 | She has brown hair and brown eyes. |
| 1:31.8 | Sarmiento is described as a Hispanic male who stands 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs of around 188 pounds. |
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