On March 23, 2021, Mohammad Anwar, 66, was making deliveries for UberEats in Washington DC when two teenage girls approached and one Tasered him and attempted to steal his Honda Accord. He resisted and when the girls drove off, he was dragged blocks as he hung on to the car whose drivers’ side door remained wide open. The car crashed and flipped on its side, and the victim was ejected onto the sidewalk and died. The hijackers, 13-year-old girl from Southeast DC, and a 15-year-old girl from Fort Washington, Maryland, were held by National Guard soldiers present at the crash-site. Anwar, who immigrated from Pakistan in 2014, leaves behind his wife, three grown children and four grandchildren.
Both girls are charged with felony murder.
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On May 11, 2021, the unnamed 15-year-old who killed Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar entered a guilty plea to felony murder. Because of her age, she will be remanded to juvenile detention and will be released when she turns 18.
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