Family of UberEats driver murdered by teenagers confronts 15-year-old in court after she receives short sentence



The family of Mohammad Anwar, the upstanding Pakistani immigrant who drove for UberEats to help make a better way for his family, confronted one of Anwar's killers in court last week during her sentencing.

What is the background?

Anwar's accused killers — two female teenagers, aged 13 and 15 — were charged with felony murder for killing Anwar.

The girls, armed with a stun gun, were attempting to carjack Anwar when, while he attempted to defend himself, the girls sped off with Anwar on the outside of the car. The car then crashed down the road, flipping on its side and flinging Anwar's body into a building. The girls were quickly detained by National Guard soldiers.

Shockingly, as one of the girls was being detained, she voiced concern for her cellphone, which she believed was still inside the vehicle, as Anwar's broken body lay on the sidewalk. Neither the soldiers nor nearby witnesses rushed to Anwar's aid.

Despite the callousness of the crime, prosecutors declined to charge the 15-year-old as an adult and were prohibited by Washington, D.C., law from charging the 13-year-old as an adult. Still, prosecutors offered the girls a plea bargain that allowed them to plead guilty to murder in exchange for other charges being dropped. The result is that both girls will serve minimal detention sentences.

What did the family say?

A judge sentenced the 15-year-old girl in juvenile court on Friday, handing out the maximum sentence allowable — just six years inside a juvenile detention facility. She will be released when she turns 21.

D.C. Judge Lynn Leibovitz denounced the "unthinkable crime" and chided the defendant for being "unfeeling," but it was Anwar's family who delivered the real verbal punch.

Unfortunately, Anwar's family was not allowed in court and were forced to read their victim statements virtually.

Anwar's daughter told the defendant directly that she will never forgive her.

I cannot get past the fact of him enduring the pain of the injuries you caused him, I cannot move past that sidewalk of N Street on March 23rd, where my Abbu [father] lay broken, while one of you was only concerned about your phone. Please tell me have you ever had a fracture? It is the worst pain anyone can go through and let me tell you clearly, you broke most of the bones in his body. I can never forgive you for that PAIN, the fact that you killed him comes way after his pain. No amount of years you spend in any facility can ever make you go through even one percent of that pain.

Even if you try to shake it off as a mistake in your life, always remember that you INTENDED to cause him pain. You had planned to tase the person whoever come in your way. How DARE YOU? How dare you use that taser on my father? The kindest man who never even killed an ant, why did he had to be in so much pain? I hope you never forget your intention to harm an innocent human. You did not kill one person that day, you killed his whole family. That pain he had to go through, will be our heartache till our last days, and we will never ever forget you were the cause of this pain.

Anwar's niece also decried the defendant being more concerned about a cellphone than Anwar and rebuked the sensational media coverage of Anwar's tragic death.

There is so much our family has endured in these few months since March 23rd. While we wereliterally at the cemetery for his burial, we learned a video of the incident was uploaded to theinternet and went viral quickly after, including in Pakistan which is half a world away. I cannotbegin to tell you how agonizing and devastating it is to watch your loved one die so violently andhave the world view it as entertainment on websites like World Star Hip Hop and TMZ.

Thereare nights we cannot sleep and the horrific video replays in our heads over and over and overagain. We are haunted by the image of his broken, crumpled body lying on the pavement andhim struggling to move. It is incredibly heartbreaking to watch the respondents lack empathyand immediately cry out for their cell phones while he is lying literally at their feet. We can'tbelieve that a witness would share this video with the world and no longer trust many peopleoutside our family. While the respondents and their privacy are protected by the juvenile courtsystem, the video now lives on the internet forever and my uncle isn't even afforded dignity inhis death.

However, when Anwar's niece addressed the defendant directly, she voiced the value of the defendant's life and expressed hope that hers would not be wasted.

"Any sentence you receive today will not bring my uncle back. While you may not have seen value in his life in those moments, we do see value in yours," she said. "Your life is valuable. Your entire life is ahead of you and you will have the opportunity to live a good life, if you so choose. We hope you will learn from this and choose to go on to do great things and be a productive member of society."

Anything else?

Tragically, prosecutors revealed in court that Anwar displayed kindness to the girls, even up to the moment they killed him.

"Anwar had shown the girls nothing but kindness on March 23, 2021, even as they plotted to steal his car, according to prosecutors. He agreed to give the girls a ride in his Honda Accord, but when they got to a side street near the ballpark, the girls tried to take his car and his belongings, according to prosecutors," WUSA-TV reported.

Still, the 15-year-old reportedly expressed remorse during her sentencing.

"No matter how much stuff I've been through, I never wanted to hurt someone," she said, according to WUSA. "None of this was intentional, in other words, I never thought this would go through ... If I could take it back, I would."

The 13-year-old girl pled guilty to second-degree murder last Thursday. She will be sentenced next month.

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Juan Williams says girls charged with felony murder in death of Uber Eats driver were just looking for a 'joyride'



Fox News host Juan Williams offered a different perspective Monday concerning the two teenagers whom police have charged with felony murder in the death of an Uber Eats driver: They were just out looking for a "joyride."

What is the background?

Mohammad Anwar moved to the United States from Pakistan in 2014 in search of a better life for his family. Anwar's life came to an abrupt and violent end last Tuesday when two teenage girls — ages 13 and 15 — allegedly attempted to carjack him while he was making deliveries as an Uber Eats driver in Washington, D.C.

Video of the incident that went viral on social media showed Anwar begging witnesses for help when his car suddenly sped away while he was hanging outside. Just seconds later, the car crashed into parked cars and rested on its side. Anwar was thrown from the vehicle during the incident, and he later died of his injuries.

Video of the shocking incident showed that nearby National Guard soldiers and other witnesses failed to render aid to Anwar as his mangled body twitched on the sidewalk. Meanwhile, one of the teenage girls can be heard saying, "Please, my phone is in there. My phone is in there."

Police charged the perpetrators — who they said also assaulted Anwar with a stun gun — with felony murder, an enhanced charge because Anwar's death occurred while the suspects were allegedly in the process of committing a serious felony.

What did Williams say?

During a panel discussion on Fox News' "The Five," Williams seemingly downplayed the seriousness of the crime.

Williams' remarks came in response to co-host Jesse Waters, who asked why the story has not received more coverage.

"I can tell you— it's not that I would say it's top of the front page or top of mind for everybody in Washington, but people are talking about it," Williams responded.

"I think, in part, what it is, is you've got— it's tragic. I mean, you've got these teenage girls. I mean, they're little kids. They're not gangsters. They're not hardened criminals. I don't think they intended to kill anybody. They were looking for having a joyride, and it just went way wrong, way out of control, and ended up in a gross tragedy," Williams said. "I mean, this is unbelievable. Their lives are ruined, and that man is dead."

Waters shot back that "usually you don't bring a stun gun to a joyride."

Williams responded, "I mean, it's like, you know, kids finding guns in their parents' house. I don't know what to say, Jesse. It's awful. It's a terrible situation."

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Williams also defended Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), who was criticized over the weekend for tweeting carjacking prevention tips.

"With regard to the mayor's tweet, again, look, I think that what we have seen in recent months is an increase in carjackings, car thefts, in this area, and so for her to say 'Be cautious,' I don't think that was the wrong note," Williams said. "I think it's good for us all to be cautious as we see a rise in this kind of crime."

Swift backlash hits CNN after outlet says murdered Uber Eats driver died in 'accident'



CNN ignited a firestorm of backlash over the weekend after characterizing what police called "felony murder" as a mere accident.

What is the background?

Two teenager girls — ages 13 and 15 — were charged with felony murder after allegedly carjacking Mohammad Anwar in Washington, D.C., last Tuesday.

Police say the teenagers attacked Anwar with a stun gun during the carjacking. The car later crashed, and Anwar died from injuries after being thrown from the vehicle. Anwar was a Pakistani immigrant who moved to America in 2014 to build a better life for his family.

The enhanced murder charges against the teenagers stem from a legal doctrine that "allows a killing that occurs in the course of a dangerous felony, even an accidental death, to be charged against the felon as first-degree murder," according to Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary.

Video of the shocking incident later circulated on social media, showing the alleged carjacking in progress and the car speed away with Anwar hanging outside. The car can be heard crashing as the videographer races toward the scene. Nearby National Guardsmen pull the teenage girls from the wrecked car, which rested on its side, as Anwar's mangled body twitched on the nearby ground. The video showed witnesses failed to provide Anwar with aid.

One of the teenage girls can be heard saying, "Please, my phone is in there. My phone is in there."

What did CNN say?

The news outlet posted on Twitter Saturday that Anwar died because of "an accident in which he was fatally injured

"Police said the girls, 13 and 15, assaulted an Uber Eats driver with a Taser while carjacking him, which led to an accident in which he was fatally injured," CNN tweeted, along with a link its story on the crime.

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What was the reaction?

CNN was universally condemned for its framing of what police say was "felony murder." Many critics suggested the race of the suspects, both of whom are black, played a role in CNN softening the language used to describe the crime.

In fact, by Sunday morning, CNN's framing of the crime as an "accident" was one of Twitter's top trending topics with more than 100,000 tweets.

  • "HEY! ANYBODY HOME? THIS IS NOT AN 'ACCIDENT,'" liberal commentator Keith Olbermann said.
  • "These girls made a whoopsie when they murdered this man. Total accident. They were in wrong place at wrong time! They're good kids! Kids murder in cold blood/ make mistakes," comedian Tim Dillon mocked.
  • "Wonder what took CNN so long to report what the rest of us did days ago. Doesn't advance their poisonous race narrative, that's why," Fox News host Laura Ingraham reacted.
  • "A white man shoots 6 Asians and 2 white people, and he is a white supremacist. A middle eastern man shoots up a store, and well, 'Don't jump to conclusions,' they say. 2 young black girls assault a man with a taser and murder him, and it's an accident. Oh, the hypocrisy," another person said.
  • Two girls murdered a man after car jacking him. Fixed it for you," another person responded.
  • "They murdered him and one of the girls was more concerned with her cellphone still being in the car than the man she just murdered laying dead on the sidewalk," one person noted.
  • "If these girls were white, this headline would be worded much differently and the outrage factor would be dialed up," another person said.
  • "fair to ask why national media highlight certain local crime activity and not others," one person suggested.
  • "It's always interesting how CNN and other news organizations are highly selective when determining whether or not it's worth mentioning the demographics of those involved in incidents such as this," another person noted.
  • "So they 'accidentally' killed him?" another person questioned.
  • "'Fatally injured' is a weird way to say MURDERED," another person said.

Fortunately, more than $400,000 had been raised for Anwar's family by Sunday afternoon.