Two Emory University students were robbed this week in separate incidents involving a shotgun-toting suspect, police said.
According to Decatur police spokeswoman Lt. Jennifer Ross, the first robbery happened around 9:20 p.m. Monday on the 1500 block of Clairmont Road, not far from the Emory campus. The student was walking home and “passed a vehicle stopped in their complex parking lot when the suspect exited the vehicle, pointed a shotgun and demanded the victim’s cellphone.”
Only a vague suspect description was provided.
Around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, another student was walking near Willivee Drive and North Decatur Road — less than a mile from the other scene — when she “noticed a vehicle stopped at the stop sign.”
“As she crossed Willivee Drive and reached the other side of the intersection, a male approached her from behind demanding her property,” Ross said in an email. “The male was pointing a firearm, believed to be a shotgun, at her while demanding her property.”
The victim threw her purse and jacket down and ran home.
A witness told police the student’s assailant had a “short afro” and “got into the passenger side of a vehicle, possibly a two-door Honda Civic, and fled eastbound on North Decatur Road,” Ross said.
Authorities described the incidents as “similar” but have not directly said they are believed to be connected. No arrests have been made.
Ross said Decatur police are working the case alongside the DeKalb County and Emory University police departments.
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