Police say a 15-year-old carjacking suspect shot and killed an Uber driver in the back early New Year’s Day

WSB-TV reporter Matt Johnson describes a case that started like a normal ride request and ended with a man dead in the roadway before sunrise.

Police say the victim was 58-year-old Cesar Tejada, an Uber driver from Grayson, and a father of two. Matt Johnson reports that Tejada picked up a rider in Lilburn around 4 a.m. early New Year’s morning, taking what should have been a short trip to Lawrenceville.

Instead, investigators say the ride became a carjacking, and Tejada was shot in the back…

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