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Amber Alert update: Baby found safe, 14-year-old arrested

Georgia police: Amber Alert issued after 2 men steal car, driving off with 1-year-old girl inside

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. – 3:40 p.m. update | Baby Royalty has been found safe and is being reunited with her family.

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2:12 p.m. update | DeKalb County Police say 14-year-old Malachi Richardson is in custody, but that Royalty is still missing.

The DeKalb County Police Department is searching for a missing child after two suspects stole a vehicle with 1-year-old Royalty inside.

An Amber Alert has been issued.

It happened around 2 a.m. as the driver attempted to make a food delivery on Harvest Dale Court in Stone Mountain, according to police.

According to Capt. Brian Delosch with the DeKalb County Police Department, a DoorDash driver was delivering food when two suspects stole the car with Royalty Grisby in the backseat.

Police identified and need help finding 14-year-old Malachi Richardson, who they say is wanted for the kidnapping of one-year-old Royalty Grisby.

The mother said her baby was wearing a pink jacket, purple shirt, pink pacifier holder, pink pacifier, and some white purple-pink socks. Royalty Grisby is 2-foot-8 and 36 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

The Nissan Armada is burgundy with Georgia plates RWW4748.

If you have any information regarding the incident, call 911.

Please look at the tweets below for additional information.

If anyone comes into contact with him, please call our Homicide/Assault Unit at 770-724-7850.


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