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15-Year-Old Boy Charged With Uber Driver’s Murder During Carjacking | Crime Alert 6AM 01.05.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 1: Police in the metropolitan Atlanta area have arrested a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year old boy for the murder of an Uber driver
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  Speaker 1: found dead on a Lawrenceville street on Thursday. The Lawrenceville
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  Speaker 1: Police Department said it was called shortly after five am
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  Speaker 1: about a person lying in the roadway and arrived to
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  Speaker 1: find the fifty eight year old victim dead from at
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  Speaker 1: least one gunshot wound. Investigators found ring doorbell video that
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  Speaker 1: showed a black SUV stopping in the roadway, dropping off
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  Speaker 1: the victim, and then leaving the area. The suv belonged
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  Speaker 1: to the victim, who was an Uber driver. Detectives determined
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  Speaker 1: that he had been the victim of a carjacking. By
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  Speaker 1: early afternoon, they had tracked the suv to a home
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  Speaker 1: in Lilburn, some ten miles away. There they arrested the teen,
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  Speaker 1: who was charged as an adult with murder. The victim's
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  Speaker 1: identity has not been released pending notification of next of kin.
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  Speaker 1: Police have also not released the killer's name due to
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  Speaker 1: his age. The Texas Department of Public Safety has issued
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  Speaker 1: an amber alert for a fourteen year old girl believed
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  Speaker 1: to be with a forty one year old man, Maruri Giolani.
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  Speaker 1: Gomez Marquez was last seen at around eight a m.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday in Plains in the three hundred block of thirteenth Street.
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  Speaker 1: According to police, She was last seen with one Orlando
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  Speaker 1: Garcia Sarmiento, forty one. According to the National Center for
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  Speaker 1: Missing and Exploited Children, Maruri is described as a Hispanic
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  Speaker 1: female who stands five feet one inch tall and weighs
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five pounds. She has brown hair
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  Speaker 1: in brown eyes. Sarmiento is described as a Hispanic male
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  Speaker 1: who stands five feet nine inches tall and weighs of
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  Speaker 1: around one hundred and eighty eight pounds. He has black
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  Speaker 1: hair in brown eyes. The pair could possibly be traveling
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  Speaker 1: in a black twenty ten Ford F one fifty with
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  Speaker 1: a Texas license plate of WGV nine nine ninety seven.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone with information on their whereabouts is urged to contact
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Department of Public Safety at eight oh six
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  Speaker 1: seven four zero eight seven seven zero, or call nine
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  Speaker 1: one one. Three women have been charged in connection with
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  Speaker 1: the death of a six year old North Carolina girl
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  Speaker 1: who weighed just twenty seven pounds at death. Earlier this month.
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  Speaker 1: Court records also show that the girl, Dominique Moody, had
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  Speaker 1: multiple injuries and scarring at the time of her death.
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  Speaker 1: According to the records, she had burn, scars, rib fractures
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  Speaker 1: in wounds from prolonged sitting in urine or fece soiled
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  Speaker 1: items such as a diaper for extensive periods of time.
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  Speaker 1: Other children at the home told investigators that the girl's
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  Speaker 1: legal guardian, her aunt, Tanya McKnight, made the girl stay
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  Speaker 1: in a dog crate. McKnight called nine one one on
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  Speaker 1: December sixteenth, and responding officers found the home in a
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  Speaker 1: state of disarray with a strong odor of feces and urine.
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  Speaker 1: The home was rat infested and cluttered with both human
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  Speaker 1: and animal feces. McKnight, Moody's adopted sister, Terryan McKnight, and
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  Speaker 1: another woman who lived at the home, Susan Robinson, were
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  Speaker 1: charged with five child abuse counts and are being held
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  Speaker 1: without bail. Prosecutors are awaiting lab results, which could lead
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  Speaker 1: to murder by torture charges. Police have been called to
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  Speaker 1: the home five time since twenty twenty two. Tanya McKnight
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  Speaker 1: filed for custody of Moody and her sibling in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: writing and her filing that the children's mother is unstable
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  Speaker 1: and not equipped to care for the children. The mother
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  Speaker 1: signed permanent custody agreements with McKnight the same year, giving
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  Speaker 1: her sister power of attorney over the children. A court
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  Speaker 1: order was issued to that effect the following year. Tanya McKnight,
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  Speaker 1: fifty one, is the grandmother to the three other children,
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  Speaker 1: ages one to four, living at the home. The status
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  Speaker 1: of those children is unclear. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this. Police and Oregon are searching for an armed
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  Speaker 1: and dangerous man in connection with an early morning murder
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday That Ashutz County Sheriff's Office said it was
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  Speaker 1: called to a report of a gunshot victim just before
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  Speaker 1: six a m. And found Justin Garrett Jimenez, thirty two dead.
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  Speaker 1: A firearm was recovered at the scene. Investigators soon identified
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  Speaker 1: fifty one year old Don Henry Vandenberg Junior as a
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  Speaker 1: person of interest in Jimenez's murder. Vandenburg goes by the
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  Speaker 1: nickname tank In, described as five foot seven inches tall,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty pounds, bald, with facial hair, and
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  Speaker 1: covered in tattoos. The Sheriff's office described some of his
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  Speaker 1: tattoos fit for duty on his chest, tank on his
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  Speaker 1: upper abdomen, and Ace of Spades on his upper left arm,
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  Speaker 1: e K on his right calf. Additional tattoos on his forearms.
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  Speaker 1: No further information was provided. Police cautioned the public not
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  Speaker 1: to approach Vandenburg if he's seen. An Ohio dentist and
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  Speaker 1: his wife were found shot to death in their home
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  Speaker 1: last week, with two small children found unharmed. The victims
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  Speaker 1: were identified as thirty seven year old Spencer Teppee and
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine year old Monique Teppe. The children were both
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  Speaker 1: under the age of six. Police said there were no
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  Speaker 1: indications of a murder suicide. There were no signs of
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  Speaker 1: forced entry, and no weapons were found. An initial report
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  Speaker 1: that a gut and bed found proved erroneous. A radio
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  Speaker 1: log said that Spencer Teppee had been shot multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: That same dispatch log also mentioned a robbery. Police got
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  Speaker 1: the first call from one of Spencer Teppee's co workers,
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  Speaker 1: who said he had not reported to work. That call
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  Speaker 1: came in at about nine am Tuesday. An officer who
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  Speaker 1: went to the home got no answer at the door
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  Speaker 1: and left a coworker said it was uncharacteristic of Teppe
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  Speaker 1: to fail to show when the business opened at eight
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  Speaker 1: a m. And also not to call in. Colleagues were
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  Speaker 1: unable to reach either of the Tepees. Police received two
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  Speaker 1: more calls around ten am, with one man reporting that
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  Speaker 1: he was at the home and could hear children inside.
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  Speaker 1: A second coworker called around that time as well, saying
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  Speaker 1: she was concerned and was on her way to the home.
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  Speaker 1: A third call came in minutes later from a friend
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  Speaker 1: who said he had gone to the home when Teppe
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  Speaker 1: didn't answer the phone and could see his body inside.
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  Speaker 1: Police arrived shortly afterward and entered the home, finding the
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  Speaker 1: bodies and the two children. Anyone with information should call
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Police Homicide Unit at six one four six four
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  Speaker 1: five forty seven thirty or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at
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  Speaker 1: six one four four sixty one tips for the latest
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  Speaker 1: this crime Alert. I'm Sydney Sumner.