Crime & Safety

APD Investigate Link Between Recent Buckhead Armed Robberies

One man was forced into his trunk and not released until the police arrived.

Atlanta Police are investigating to see if recent carjackings and armed robberies over a 48-hour span may be connected.

One of the carjacking victims, who are Georgia Tech students, told WSB that the suspects seemed "pretty coordinated" and confronted them with a gun as soon as he opened his car door.

They took the students' wallets, cell phones and car keys, WSB reports.

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The victim was being dropped off by a friend at his Pharr Road apartment on Friday night. He said he thinks the suspects were waiting in their cars across the street and watching them.

The men then drove away from the scene in three separate cars, which a police spokesman said is "unusual."

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Two armed robberies committed on Sunday morning less than a mile away in the Piedmont Road Hampton Inn parking deck are also being investigated by police to see if they could be connected to the armed robbery of the GT students.

Two men ordered a man at gunpoint to give over his belongings and forced him into his trunk. They also demanded a woman's belongings at gunpoint and forced her into her car's backseat. Police were able to let the man out of his trunk when they arrived, WSB reports.

 


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