The Alpharetta Department of Public Safety and Crime Stoppers Atlanta have partnered and are offering a reward of up to $3,000 for information that leads to the arrest of an “armed and dangerous” man connected to a recent armed robbery in Atlanta, police said on Friday.
The suspect, Kinneth Battle, was involved in the armed robbery at a BP convenience store on Windward Parkway, along with Fredrequis Cobb, who has already been arrested, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported earlier this month.
On Saturday, March 15 at around 2 a.m., Cobb jumped over the counter of the BP station and took the cash register drawer, police said. He then entered a getaway car that Battle was operating, and they drove away, according to an Alpharetta Department of Public Safety press release.
Then, after a store clerk provided the tag number of the vehicle, both men were located at Battle’s home in Cumming, where Cobb was arrested. However, Battle “fled out the back door armed with an AK-47 or similar weapon,” the Department of Public Safety said.
Battle ran into a dark, wooded area near Ga. 400, where at least 45 deputies and SWAT team members searched but failed to find him, police said. He remains at large.
The suspect is 21 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs around 200 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He has several tattoos on his arms, legs and chest, police said. He is also known to frequent the Planters Ridge complex in Alpharetta and the Campbellton Road area in southwest Atlanta.
Meanwhile, Cobb was charged with robbery and wearing a mask, hood or device which conceals the identity of the wearer.
The Alpharetta Department of Public Safety said the DPS is offering $1,000 for information leading to the location, arrest and indictment of Battle, and Crime Stoppers is offering another $2,000, DPS Director Gary George said.
“I am grateful for their assistance and appreciative of our partnership,” George said in the press release. “We need the public’s help in locating this dangerous suspect.”
George Gordon, spokesman for the Alpharetta DPS, told the AJC that DPS hopes the partnership with Crime Stoppers will be “very effective.”
“We’ve had a number of detectives who have been looking for him with no results,” Gordon said. “We want to move to other areas in the metro area, and that’s the way to do it. We simply don’t know where he is at this time. We’ve been searching since the day of the incident.”
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Crime Stoppers Atlanta at (404) 577-8477, online at www.crimestoppersatlanta.org or via text message by sending the tip to CRIMES (274637).
Information can be submitted anonymously, which will not affect eligibility for the reward.
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