{"id":420372,"date":"2026-05-04T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=420372"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:33:36","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-of-five-year-old-girl-in-alice-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=420372","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged with Murder of Five-Year-Old Girl in Alice Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jefferson Lewis, 47, who had just been released from prison, turned himself in and now faces murder charges over the girl&#8217;s abduction on April 25, 2026, with her body found five days later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her death led to riots by around 400 people, including clashes with police, hospital attacks, and $105,000 in damage at a service station, prompting 11 arrests for rioting and looting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family expressed relief at the charges and called for calm, while Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price blamed substandard housing, alcohol abuse, and child neglect for ongoing issues in town camps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A 5 year old girl is murdered so these clowns start looting. They were in such a frenzy some people even stole shelving! Over 200k worth of stock\/damage. What the hell does stealing food have to do with what happened?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"270\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 490 \/ 270;\" width=\"490\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/z3vsHzHgrpeSOpcz.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Police are on high alert as healing ceremonies continue and investigations proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are on high alert as healing ceremonies continue and investigations proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":420375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,921],"tags":[5897,5898],"class_list":["post-420372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-alice-springs","tag-northern-territory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420376,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420372\/revisions\/420376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/420375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}