Gunmen hold up another student near Tech

A student was robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday in the same apartment complex near Georgia Tech where a similar robbery occurred about 24 hours earlier.

Eric Mills is a student at University of Phoenix, a nationwide college with six campuses in metro Atlanta.

Mills said he was walking to his apartment in the sprawling Centennial Place complex about 1 a.m. Wednesday when he was attacked on Hunnicutt Street.

“I turned the corner and I noticed a car that was to the left of me,” said Mills told reporters after the incident. “I’m on the phone talking, and all of a sudden, I feel a presence behind me.”

Mills said he turned around to find two masked men behind him.

“One has a gun and the other one is coming toward me a little more aggressively,” he said. “Immediately, they ask me for my phone.”

Mills said he threw his book bag down, “thinking it was more valuable than my phone because my book bag has my laptop in it.”

He said the suspects “didn’t care about my laptop, they wanted my phone.”

As one suspect got closer to him, “the other guy with the gun says he’s going to shoot me,” Mills said.

“I take off running, because the other guy is coming at me,” Mills said. “I trip and I fall, and he falls on my leg and we’re on the street.”

Mills said he sustained abrasions to his hand, arm and side in the scuffle.

“I get up and the guy with the gun is closer to me, pointing it at me, and he says, ‘I’m going to shoot you, stop, what are you thinking, stop.’ And I go, ‘no,’ and I take off in the middle of the street,” Mills said.

Mills said that he stopped several cars, but “no one came to help me.”

“I turned around and I see [the suspects] jump into a car with my book bag and take off,” Mills said.

Wednesday’s robbery happened about a block from where a Georgia Tech student was robbed while walking on Luckie Street early Tuesday morning.

“I’m very, very angry,” Mills said. “If it happened just yesterday, why aren’t the police roaming the neighborhood and seeing people hanging around? These guys were waiting for me, they were waiting for someone.”