By Bill Galluccio
Dec 18, 2020
Jeremy Fitzgerald, 34, and his girlfriend,
Turlisca Turner, 29, took the boy, whose name is
Sergio, from his mother and drove him from Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi.
Prosecutors said that Fitzgerald traveled to Nashville with Sergio s mother,
Antoinette Smith, while Turner was supposed to babysit the young boy. Fitzgerald tried to get Smith to work as a prostitute, but when she refused, he left her stranded in Nashville.
Fitzgerald spoke with Smith s sister and demanded money to return Sergio. The next morning, Fitzgerald and Turner left Memphis with the boy and drove to Southaven, Mississippi, where they stopped at a gas station.
By Bill Galluccio
Dec 18, 2020
Jeremy Fitzgerald, 34, and his girlfriend,
Turlisca Turner, 29, took the boy, whose name is
Sergio, from his mother and drove him from Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi.
Prosecutors said that Fitzgerald traveled to Nashville with Sergio s mother,
Antoinette Smith, while Turner was supposed to babysit the young boy. Fitzgerald tried to get Smith to work as a prostitute, but when she refused, he left her stranded in Nashville.
Fitzgerald spoke with Smith s sister and demanded money to return Sergio. The next morning, Fitzgerald and Turner left Memphis with the boy and drove to Southaven, Mississippi, where they stopped at a gas station.
By Bill Galluccio
Dec 18, 2020
Jeremy Fitzgerald, 34, and his girlfriend,
Turlisca Turner, 29, took the boy, whose name is
Sergio, from his mother and drove him from Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi.
Prosecutors said that Fitzgerald traveled to Nashville with Sergio s mother,
Antoinette Smith, while Turner was supposed to babysit the young boy. Fitzgerald tried to get Smith to work as a prostitute, but when she refused, he left her stranded in Nashville.
Fitzgerald spoke with Smith s sister and demanded money to return Sergio. The next morning, Fitzgerald and Turner left Memphis with the boy and drove to Southaven, Mississippi, where they stopped at a gas station.
By Bill Galluccio
Dec 18, 2020
Jeremy Fitzgerald, 34, and his girlfriend,
Turlisca Turner, 29, took the boy, whose name is
Sergio, from his mother and drove him from Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi.
Prosecutors said that Fitzgerald traveled to Nashville with Sergio s mother,
Antoinette Smith, while Turner was supposed to babysit the young boy. Fitzgerald tried to get Smith to work as a prostitute, but when she refused, he left her stranded in Nashville.
Fitzgerald spoke with Smith s sister and demanded money to return Sergio. The next morning, Fitzgerald and Turner left Memphis with the boy and drove to Southaven, Mississippi, where they stopped at a gas station.
Couple charged with kidnapping, abandonment of child left at Goodwill
Federal charges announced in kidnapping case By Janice Broach | December 17, 2020 at 10:30 PM CST - Updated December 18 at 10:47 AM
Surveillance video shows one of the accused walking the child from a Shell station to Goodwill. It then shows a car drive up and stop at a pump. A man gets out, gets the two-year-old out of the back seat, and starts walking toward the Goodwill donation center behind the Shell Convenience store.
Investigators say that man is Jeremy Fitzgerald.
The video also shows an unidentified man in the car, as well as a woman who walks into the Shell. Investigators identified her as 29-year-old Turliscea Turner.