As Fulton County Superior Court Judge Karen Woodson and her son parked behind a northeast Atlanta building Sunday night, Devon Woodson heard the “sound of the slide of a handgun being racked to chamber a round.”
He turned around and saw two men, one with a semi-automatic handgun pointed at him.
Those were some of the new details that emerged Monday, hours after the judge and her son were carjacked at gunpoint.
According to an Atlanta police incident report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, they had just arrived at their destination on St. Charles Avenue to pick up the son’s girlfriend at about 8 p.m. Sunday when the incident occurred.
Devon Woodson told police one of the suspects, a 6-foot-2 man with short dreadlocks that fell to the bottom of his ears, instructed him to leave the keys and his phone in the car. He had just received the vehicle, a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT “Hellcat Edition,” as a gift from his brother.
“He told the male everything was in the vehicle and he backed away from the car,” according to the report.
Devon Woodson did not get a good look at the other man, who was shorter than the first suspect and heavy-set. That man went to the passenger side where Judge Woodson was.
“Judge Woodson advised that she had already exited the vehicle when the two males approached,” according to the report. “She stated that the heavier set male came around to her side of the vehicle and told her to leave her phone in the vehicle. She tossed her phone in the car, grabbed her bag and stepped away.”
At that point, the suspects drove off in the car.
After police arrived, Devon Woodson was able to track his iPhone 6 that he left in the car, and police went to the 2500 block of Lakewood Avenue in southwest Atlanta, where they found the car abandoned.
Witnesses at that location told police they saw two men exit the stolen Dodge and get into another black Challenger driven by an unknown third person.
While Devon Woodson’s iPhone was still inside the stolen car when it was found, he told police that a .40-caliber handgun under the driver’s seat and an iPad that was in the trunk were missing, along with the judge’s iPhone.
Neither the judge nor her son were injured in the incident. Police have made no arrests.
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