Three teenagers face several felonies in connection with an armed robbery and assault at an apartment complex advertised exclusively to Kennesaw State University students.
The violent incident happened at the U Club on Frey apartment complex about midnight Jan. 26, according to Cobb County arrest warrants. The trio is accused of being among a “group of associates responsible” for robbing and attacking two men while also nearly beating a woman to death.
Madalyn Nicole Hooker, 17, of Woodstock, was arrested Friday by Cobb deputies, while her co-defendants — Bryce Dowell, 17, of Hiram, and Dameyon Heck, 18, of Woodstock, — were arrested Saturday in Cherokee County, jail records show.
During the incident, an iPhone 11 Pro Max was stolen from one man, according to arrest warrants. One of the other men was able to keep his phone, which the group is accused of trying to steal. Both men were beaten at gunpoint.
The woman’s head and neck was punched and kicked repeatedly by the group, the warrants said.
“Due to the amount of assailants, kicks, and punches to the head and neck area of said victim, it could have reasonably killed her,” the warrants said.
Seven other people were in the room during the attack, but they were not physically harmed, the warrants said. The attack was partially captured on cellphone video, authorities said. That video has not been made public.
The warrants against the three suspects were obtained Thursday by Kennesaw police. Hooker admitted to police that she drove the group to the apartment complex and witnessed the robberies and assaults before driving the group away from the scene, her warrants said.
The apartment complex, which is off Frey Road, is within half a mile of KSU's main campus. U Club on Frey bills itself on its website as a community of "student apartments."
University officials could not say if any of the suspects or victims in the attack were students.
Dowell, Heck and Hooker remain in the Cobb County Jail without bond, according to online jail records. The trio faces the same 12 charges, which include five felonies.
Those felonies consist of three counts of aggravated assault and two counts of armed robbery. The other seven charges are counts of simple assault, stemming from the seven other people who witnessed the attack.
“We are not able to release any additional information at this time,” Kennesaw police spokesman Officer Scott Luther said Tuesday morning in a statement. “I will let you know that this is a very active and ongoing investigation and we will release information as it comes available and will not jeopardize the case.”
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