Residents at a home in south DeKalb County said the driver of a vehicle bailed after it crashed into their carport Tuesday morning.
Police responded to the home in the 3000 block of Gay Drive, which is near Decatur.
Kenyata Willis said she was asleep when a white sedan plowed through her front yard and into her carport, collapsing the structure.
“We just woke up to a loud sound,” Willis told AJC.com. “The car hit both of the cars in our driveway and the house.”
Willis lives at the home with her grandfather, who has been in the neighborhood for more than two decades.
“When we came out the door, a guy was trying to get something out of the car and then he took off running,” Willis said. He did not appear to be hurt, she said.
Police told her the car was stolen.
“I’m sorry to hear it was a hit-and-run, because this is a pretty good neighborhood,” neighbor Suwanna Walker said. “They did all the damage and took off.”
She said she thought it was thunder when she heard the crash around 7 a.m., but she never saw the driver.
“When I opened my door I saw a banged-up white car ... sedan-type car on a wrecker,” Walker said. “They were pulling it out and the front was crushed like a can.”
