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Guest robbed at gunpoint in downtown hotel
Police are looking for a hotel bandit who robbed a guest at gunpoint early Monday morning.
The robbery was reported at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites at 111 Cone Street, according to police.
Sometime before 5 a.m., Farraj Alrashdi awoke in his downtown Atlanta hotel room to an armed man standing over him, police said.
“The male told him to be quiet as he took three phones, a laptop a backpack, and then fled the scene,” Atlanta Police spokeswoman Officer Kim Jones said.
Alrashdi wasn’t injured, police said. Police did not release a description of the robber.
A previous version of this story included an incorrect location for the robbery. It did not take place at the Holiday Inn on Andrew Young International Boulevard.
