Police investigating robbery near Georgia Tech

By Mashaun D. Simon

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta police are looking for a man they believe to have attacked and robbed a woman near the Georgia Tech campus in the early morning hours Sunday.

The incident occurred around 1 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of Northside Drive.

Police were dispatched to the scene when a woman called saying she had been robbed.

The victim was dropped off at the location when an unknown male subject grabbed her, demanded her belongings, went into her pockets and ran down the stairs.

It is not known in what direction the suspect ran. The victim was not hurt during the confrontation, police said.

The subject is described as a white male, about 20-30 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches tall with a medium build. He had a clean-shaven face and was wearing a black zip-up hooded sweater and blue jeans, authorities said.

The robbery happened in a stairwell at the Tivoli Tenside Apartments, the same complex where Georgia Tech student Patrick Whaley was shot in the chest during a robbery last May.

Atlanta police later arrested three teenagers in connection with the shooting of Whaley, who was attacked in the Tivoli Tenside parking garage.

Whaley was getting in his car when two men jumped him. While the two were going through his pockets, they were interrupted by a couple getting off the elevator in the parking garage. The men forced the couple to the ground and took their credit cards, $280 in cash, cellphones and car keys, according to a police report.

They tried to force Whaley into a van, and as he was climbing in, a third man came up and shot him in chest. Whaley survived.