An intruder laid in wait for a Buckhead woman to return to her house, where he tied her up, held her at gunpoint and took $75,000 worth of valuables, Atlanta police said.
The woman had just come from a friend’s home Friday night when she found the man in her bedroom at her Peachtree Heights home, according to an Atlanta police report.
"I thought before he leaves he's going to kill me." Buckhead woman held at gunpoint during a home invasion that lasted more than a hour, police say.
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“He grabbed me around my neck, held a gun to my temple and said: ‘C’mon,” The woman told Channel 2 Action News. Because the robber has not been caught, she asked that her name and address not be used due to concerns for her safety.
She said the man tied her up with pajama pants, put a hood over her head and forced her face-down onto her bed.
“At that point upstairs, I thought ‘Before he leaves he’s going to shoot me,’ ” she said.
The man was in her home for an hour before a getaway driver arrived, Channel 2 reported. The robber left with a 2-carat diamond pendant necklace, a Cartier watch, a diamond ring and a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun.
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After he left, the woman ran, hands still tied, to a neighbor’s home for help, police said.
Atlanta police told Channel 2 they added extra patrols to the neighborhood in an effort to catch the suspect.
But the investigation could be an uphill battle.
The suspect didn’t let the woman get a look at him, so she could not offer a description of him, and there was no security camera footage either.
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