Atlanta police Thursday were trying to determine if the same suspects who carjacked a man’s Jeep at a Buckhead fitness center before daybreak were also involved in a string of other overnight crimes in southwest Atlanta.
In at least two of the incidents the suspects were driving a dark-colored Porsche luxury sedan.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said the carjacking happened about 5:45 a.m. in the top level of a parking deck in the 3500 block of Peachtree Road.
Jones said the victim told officers he was walking into L.A. Fitness when a man got out of a Porsche Panamera that was occupied by three other men, pointed a handgun at him and demanded his wallet.
“At that point, he just tossed the suspect his keys, telling him that everything he had was in the Jeep,” Jones said. “The suspect then took the keys, entered his Jeep and drove away with the Porsche following.”
Earlier in the morning, a woman told police that as she arrived at her home on Abbey Drive in the Princeton Lakes community of southwest Atlanta about 3:40 a.m., a black or dark blue Porsche Panamera stopped in front of her home and the front seat passenger got out, walked across her lawn and pointed a pistol at her.
The woman turned and ran around the back of her home, “fell in the wet grass believing that the suspect was behind her, and expected to be shot,” an Atlanta police incident report states. “After a short period of time, she got up and entered her home and notified 911 of the incident.”
About two hours before that incident, a residential robbery was reported about a half-mile away at a home on Telford Terrace in the Princeton Lakes community.
“The victim, a 50-year-old male, advised that as he came home from work, three suspects got out of a vehicle while he was trying to get into his house, forced their way in, hit him in the face with their fists and stole several items from the house and $2,000 cash,” Jones said.
In that robbery, the suspects were also in dark-colored vehicle, but the type of vehicle was not released.
The Princeton Lakes community sent the following email to residents Thursday morning alerting them to the crimes: “APD & Princeton Lakes security are actively working together to figure out what crew decided to target our community last night. Between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m., a group of young men in a Porsche sedan committed a robbery, multiple auto larcenies & flashed a gun at a resident.”
While the L.A. Fitness carjacking victim was not injured, that wasn’t the case in a violent carjacking a month ago across the street at Phipps Plaza.
A woman was beaten by suspects who stole her BMW as she was leaving a Phipps Plaza restaurant.
Police have charged three people in that carjacking.
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