Mom pleads for help in finding road-rage killer
“My son is gone. my baby boy, one day shy of his 21st birthday that he was so excited about. My son was a good kid who never got in trouble a day in his life.”
SUNRISE — A deadly drive-by shooting has the victim’s family making a tearful plea for the public’s help to find the killer.
Surrounded by six family members holding a banner celebrating Tarrance Geter’s brief life, his mother Chiquita Moore spoke with a trembling voice in front of the Sunrise Police Department on Thursday morning.
“My son is gone. my baby boy, one day shy of his 21st birthday that he was so excited about,” she said. “My son was a good kid who never got in trouble a day in his life.”
Geter — nicknamed Muncho by his family — was a passenger in a pickup truck when police say the driver unintentionally cut off another pickup truck, driving across its path at Northwest 50th Street and Hiatus Road just before 2 a.m. Oct. 23.
The second truck started following the truck Geter
Chiquita Moore
was riding in and when both trucks reached the 4400 block of Nob Hill Road, several shots were fired, police said.
One of the shots went through the rear window of the truck and struck Geter in the head. The driver — Geter’s coworker and friend who was driving them home from work — drove to a 7-Eleven to get help.
Sunrise Fire Rescue took Geter to Broward Health Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Geter and his mother worked overlapping night shifts for Phoenix Package Logistics LLC in Sunrise. Now, that warehouse is an unbearable reminder of her son.
“It’s devastating for me to go back to work,” she said. “I haven’t been back to that job yet.”
The last time Moore saw her son alive was when she gave him $2 for a vending machine at work.
“Had I known that was the last time I would see my child [alive] I would have asked him to come home [with me] when I was getting off [work],” she said.
The shooter sped away in a newer model, full-size, 2-door, silver-gray pickup truck. Police have released surveillance pictures and video of the truck, but it was dark and it was raining.
“When we get a case like this it’s all hands on deck until we get a resolution,” said Police Chief Anthony
Rosa.
He is asking anyone with information to contact the Sunrise Police Department at 954-764-4357 or
Detective Robert Milien at 954-746-3693 or Detective Michelle Gindlesperger at 954-746-3564. Anonymous tips can be given to Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 and online at browardcrimestoppers.org.