Detective testifies in shooting death of 15-year-old girl in Union City

UNION CITY, Ga. — An ankle monitor helped police break the case in a drive-by shooting that killed a teenager.
 
The gunfire hit 15-year-old Amira Cameron in Union City.
 
A Union City detective says police found the car they believed was used in the drive-by shooting that killed Amira, and they got a call from a man who tracks defendants wearing GPS ankle monitors.
 
"He said, 'I have a client who was shot in Union City," Detective Cliff McClure says.
 
McClure says he got a big break in Amira's murder when a company that tracks defendants with ankle monitors told him his client had been shot in Union City Oct. 4.
 
McClure says the GPS on the ankle monitor showed Jamirus Zimmerman was at the Oakley Shoals apartments three minutes before Amira was shot.
 
"Ankle monitor pinged right there where victim was found," McClure says.
 
Police say Zimmerman was in the car with 19-year-old Muhammad Hassan when Hassan and others opened fire, hitting and killing Amira.
 
McClure testified the shooting may have been gang-related, but said Amira was an innocent bystander.
 
"No indication at all she was involved in a gang," McClure says.
 
McClure says officers also found surveillance video of Hassan dropping Zimmerman off at the hospital 10 minutes after the shooting.
 
The detective says Hassan hid out with friends in Carroll County after the murder.
 
He testified his friends became suspicious when Hassan refused to go out and said he had no ID.
 
"They Googled his name and found he had a warrant for murder," McClure says.
 
Prosecutors say Hassan opened fire on Amira days after he was given first offender (what?) on an armed robbery case.
 
The judge denied bond for Hassan.