Elijah Jase Parker

Introduction

Elijah Jase Parker, a 19-year-old from Calhoun, Georgia, is held without bond in the Bartow County jail on 12 charges accusing him of strangling his mother in a Cartersville supermarket parking lot on October 22, 2026, stealing her SUV and leading police on a nearly 100-mph chase that ended in a violent crash. Police said Parker admitted after his arrest that he had been trying to kill his mother. He faces four felony counts — aggravated assault by strangulation, false imprisonment, theft by taking and fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer — along with eight misdemeanors, most of them traffic offenses.

Background Information

Parker is 19 and listed a Calhoun, Georgia, address in the Bartow County inmate inquiry system, which records him as a pre-trial inmate in maximum classification at the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office jail. His mother is identified in local coverage as Laura Ann Moore. Weeks before the parking-lot attack, Cartersville police booked Parker on September 14, 2026, on a misdemeanor charge of making terroristic threats, and he was released from that case on his own recognizance on September 29, according to the county’s jail records; the New York Post noted he had been out on his own recognizance since that arrest. Police said he did not have a valid driver’s license at the time of the October attack.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Charged, not convicted. Parker has been booked on 12 charges — four felonies and eight misdemeanors — and remains a pre-trial inmate with no bond set. The allegations are accusations, he has not been tried, and he is presumed innocent.

Cartersville police officers were dispatched to the Five Guys at 415 Cherokee Place around 10:40 p.m. on October 22 for a report of an assault and vehicle theft in the adjacent Publix parking lot, according to the department’s incident report quoted by the Daily Tribune News. Parker’s mother told officers she had let her son — who had no license — drive her 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe around the Publix lot, and that shortly after they swapped seats he began choking her while she sat in the driver’s seat and would not let her get out. She said she felt she was going to lose consciousness during the struggle, broke free and ran to the Five Guys in fear for her life. The responding officer observed red marks around her neck and throat.

She later told investigators she was convinced her son would have killed her if she had not escaped, and reported that Parker told her he was not going to jail or prison — and that if law enforcement made contact with him, “he would have a shootout with them and they would have to kill him,” the incident report states. Cartersville police Capt. Greg Sparacio told FOX5 Atlanta the attack began “out of the blue.”

Parker then allegedly got into the driver’s seat and drove off in the Tahoe. A ping from his cellphone placed him in the Adairsville area, where officers spotted the SUV on Hall Station Road and tried to stop it near State Route 140 around 11:52 p.m. He refused to stop and led police on a pursuit that reached speeds reported between 70 and 98 mph along Old Dixie Highway and Joe Frank Harris Parkway toward the Gordon County line, WBHF radio reported. Attempting a turn, he lost control and struck a maroon Kia Optima stopped at a stop sign just over the county line; the Kia’s driver told officers her airbags deployed and she was having leg pain, and the Tahoe left the roadway and ended up in a tree line. Officers pulled Parker from the wreck and took him into custody without further incident.

After receiving a Miranda warning, Parker told an Adairsville police sergeant that he had been trying to kill his mother, had put a plastic bag over her head and had stolen the SUV after she escaped, and said he fled the traffic stop because he knew he did not have a license, according to WBHF and the New York Post. He was booked into the Bartow County jail at 1:15 a.m. on October 23, with the Adairsville Police Department listed as booking origin.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The attack drew immediate local coverage: WBHF radio and the Daily Tribune News in Cartersville published accounts built on the police incident report and the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office jail records, and the story went national on October 31 when the New York Post recounted the strangulation, the plastic bag and the 100-mph chase. Sparacio, the Cartersville police captain, tied the case to October’s domestic-violence awareness month: “it goes to highlight the dangers of domestic violence, and no community is immune to it.” The Daily Tribune reported that no bond had been set and that Parker remained in custody at the Bartow County jail as of press time. The Kia driver’s injuries were described as leg pain; Moore survived the attack.

Current Status

Parker remains a pre-trial inmate at the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office jail, classified maximum, with total bond and bail recorded at $0.00 and no release date, according to the county’s online inmate inquiry. His first listed court appearance was jail-courtroom proceedings on October 24, 2026. The 12 charges are unadjudicated accusations — no indictment, plea or trial has been reported — and he is presumed innocent. Neither Parker nor any attorney for him has made a public statement in the coverage, and Moore has not spoken publicly beyond her statements to investigators. His September terroristic-threats case was resolved with his own-recognizance release; jail records show no disposition on the new charges.

Impact on Their Career/Life

At 19, Parker is in maximum-custody pre-trial detention with no bond, and his name is now attached to a case local and national outlets have framed around two details police said he admitted: the attempt to kill his mother and the plastic bag. The New York Post’s account, published while he sat in the county jail, emphasized that he had been free on his own recognizance after a September terroristic-threats arrest — a detail likely to follow the case as it moves through the Bartow County courts. For Moore, her account of the parking-lot attack and her escape to a Five Guys restaurant is now part of the public record of the case against her son, quoted in the incident report every story in the case rests on.

Sources

New York Post, “Georgia teen allegedly choked mom then led cops on 100 mph chase,” October 31, 2026 — source
WBHF Radio, “Man Jailed After Attack on Mother, Vehicle Theft and Chase,” October 2026 — source
Daily Tribune News, “Man accused of choking mom, stealing her SUV,” October 2026 — source
Bartow County Sheriff’s Office Inmate Inquiry, “Inmate Detail - PARKER, ELIJAH JASE,” accessed October 31, 2026 — source