Moment Georgia police arrest a suspect who ‘stole a car with a child inside’ after a concerned mother used the ‘Find My Phone’ feature to locate a 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 child inside
- Atlanta police release body camera footage of the chase and arrest of Darius White, 38, who allegedly stole a car
- The boy’s mother left her car running as she ran into a Goodwill store
- White allegedly then jumped in the car with the child inside
- Officers responded within five minutes and rescued the boy within 60 minutes. The boy and all of the officers were unharmed in the pursuit.
A terrified Georgia mother had the foresight to use a phone tracking device to help police find her nine-year-old son after his car was stolen with the boy inside.
Jerrica Moore, 31, slipped 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, had to jump into the moving vehicle and take off.
Luckily for the quick-witted mother, her son’s phone was equipped with a geo-fencing feature which allowed law enforcement to zero in on his abductor.
Bodycam video of the incident shows Moore approached an Atlanta police officer in his patrol car on April 4 when the robbery took place. She then takes her phone and zooms in on the app’s geolocation map.
“They’re following the car to southern Jordan,” the officer calls over the radio.
Georgia State Police, who assisted in the chase, quickly locate the car and pull it off the road, disabling it and allowing the boy to escape through the rear window.
White stayed in the car until he was dragged out by cops, complaining the whole time that the police had put his life in danger by hitting the vehicle.
The nine-year-old boy was rescued unharmed after the 60-minute ordeal.
Darius White, 38, was apprehended after he was discovered driving away in the stolen car.
Darius White is pictured in his photo after being arrested by officers
The officer behind the camera then jumps out of his squad car, pulls out his gun, and apprehends White.
The video then switches to the body camera of another officer running towards the distraught boy.
The officer hugs the boy and says “You did a good job, you did a good job.”
“I was scared,” said the boy. ‘I was afraid.’
“You did a good job, you did a good job,” the on-camera officer can be heard telling the boy as he kisses him.
The nine-year-old boy was shaken but uninjured after the chase.
Fulton County released a statement about the carjacking shortly after it happened, praising officers for locating the child
Police pilot Leroy Champion was one of the officers involved in the chase.
“For me, personally, any time a kid is involved, your tension level goes up a bit,” he said. “You are doing everything you can to try to find this person. You fly, fly, fly, get fuel, then fly, fly, fly.
White was apprehended and the boy was rescued within 60 minutes of the mother’s call.
The boy, his mother and all of the officers were unhurt in the pursuit.
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