Georgia State student attacked, car stolen

By Rhonda Cook

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia State University police are reviewing hours of video while the state Crime Lab looks for evidence on a car stolen after a violent attack on a 19-year-old student Sunday night, Deputy Chief Carlton Mullis said Thursday.

Mullis said Kateci Yvonne Wilson had parked in an underground GSU parking lot Sunday night and was on her way to the library when a man stopped her and demanded the keys to her 2009 silver Nissan Versa.

“She had left her car and he may have followed her from her car,” Mullis told the AJC. “He said, ‘give me your keys.’ She wasn’t at the car. That’s why we didn’t classify it as a carjacking ... They only way he would have known which car it was [is] he must have followed her.”

Mullis said a witness saw the man knock Wilson to the ground. She suffered a severe head injury when her head slammed on the concrete.

Wilson was hospitalized until Wednesday. She has no memory of the attack.

The Versa was found at MARTA’s Westlake station Wednesday morning.

The witness and a Georgia Bureau of Investigation artist will come up with a sketch so investigators can compare it to images captured on video cameras at the Westlake, GSU and Five Points MARTA stations.

This was one of three attacks on college students in Atlanta in less than a week. Georgia State, the Atlanta University complex and especially Georgia Tech have become targets of criminals in recent months.

The most recent attack was early Thursday when a Tech student was stabbed as he walked home from the Publix grocery store in Midtown. The student told Atlanta police the man began yelling at him so the student gave the man some money. But the man kept shouting and then stabbed the student in the stomach.

The student’s name was not released and police did not know his condition.

On Saturday, two other Tech students were robbed at gunpoint on North Avenue near Spring Street.