Moment when Georgia police arrest suspect who ‘stole car with child inside’ after worried mom uses ‘Find my Phone’ feature to locate kidnapped boy, 9
- Jerrica Moore, 31, used a phone locator app to help Atlanta police find the man who stole her car with her 9-year-old in it
- Atlanta police released body camera footage from the chase and apprehension of Darius White, 38, who allegedly stole a car
- The boy’s mother left her car running while she ran into a Goodwill store
- White then allegedly jumped into the car with the child inside
- Officers responded within five minutes and rescued the boy within 60 The boy and all officers were unhurt in the chase
A terrified Georgia mother had the presence of mind to use a phone location device to help police track down her nine-year-old son after her car was stolen with the boy inside.
Jerrica Moore, 31, ducked into the Goodwill store in Atlanta last week, leaving her child in the car for a quick second while she ran an errand.
But that was all the time accused carjacker Darius White, 38, needed jump into the running vehicle and take off.
Lucky for the quick thinking mom, her son’s phone was equipped with a geolocation feature that allowed law enforcement to zero in on his abductor.
Bodycam video of the incident shows Moore approach an Atlanta police officer in his patrol car on April 4, when the theft took place. She then takes her phone and zooms in on the app’s geolocating map.
‘They’re tracking the car to South Jordan,’ the officer calls in over the radio.
Georgia State Police, who assisted in the hunt, quickly locate the car and ram it off the road, disabling it and allowing the boy to escape out of the back window.
White remained in the car until he was dragged out by cops, complaining all the while that police had jeopardized his life by hitting the vehicle.
The nine-year-old boy was rescued without harm after the 60 minute ordeal.
Darius White, 38, was apprehended after he was discovered fleeing in the stolen car.
Darius White is pictured in his mugshot after being arrested by officers
The officer behind the camera then jumps out of his squad car, draws his gun and apprehends White.
The video then cuts to the body camera of a different officer who runs to the distraught boy.
The officer embraces the boy and tells him ‘You did a good job, you did a good job.’
‘I was scare,’ the boy says. ‘I was scared.’
“You did a good job, you did a good job,” the officer on camera can be heard telling the boy as he embraces him.
The nine-year-old boy was shaken but unharmed after the chase.
Fulton County released a statement on the carjacking shortly after it happened, praising the officers for finding the child
Police Pilot Leroy Champion was one of the officers involved in the chase.
‘For me, personally, anytime a kid is involved, your tense level gets up a little bit,’ he said. ‘You do everything you can to try to find that person. You fly, fly, fly, go get fuel, then fly, fly, fly.’
White was apprehended and the boy rescued within 60 minutes of the mother’s call.
The boy, his mother, and all officers were not harmed in the chase.
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