Police have arrested two more suspects in a string of car thefts involving women in parking lots, bringing to three the number of teenagers now in custody on charges stemming from attacks that started July 5.
Atlanta police said Wednesday members of the U.S. Marshal’s counter gang unit picked up 17-year-old Ethan Gathright on Tuesday in DeKalb County. Members of the Atlanta Police Department’s gang unit arrested Hoye Anderson, 18, also on Tuesday.
Steve Spigner, 17, was arrested last week. He was indicted Friday in Fulton County for allegedly attacking a woman in the parking lot of Phipps Plaza Mall earlier this month. He also is charged in DeKalb County with attacking two other women in July and taking their cars.
Gathright is charged along with Spigner in the July 5 assault on a woman who had just stepped out of of her 2011 Mercedes on a lower level parking lot near the Target at the Edgewood Shopping District. She was punched in the head and knocked to the ground and then her car was taken. Gaithright is charged with carjacking. Spigner is charged with robbery by force and misdemeanor battery in the incident that happened in the parking lot of a shopping center in DeKalb County portion of Atlanta
Both Gaithright and Anderson are charged along with Spigner with carjacking in the attack on another woman on Aug. 4 as she was walking towards her BMW parked at Phipps Plaza Mall. Spigner is charged aggravated battery in that incident because the woman’s eye socket was broken.
Gathright and Anderson are not charged in two other attacks in which Spigner is charged.
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