Two men are facing charges in connection with a home invasion and armed robbery at a student apartment complex near the University of Georgia.
The alleged robbery took place May 31 at the Polo Club apartments on International Drive, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.
Aaron Malik Sanders, 18, was arrested that night and charged with first-degree home invasion and armed robbery.
Anthony Jocques Rucker, 19, was arrested on Saturday, after investigators tied him to the crime. Rucker faces armed robbery, aggravated assault, first-degree home invasion and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony charges.
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The 23-year-old employee who lived in the apartment where the home invasion occurred told police that he invited some men in the complex to his house to play a video game, the newspaper reported.
After they went inside the apartment, one of the men pulled a handgun and another took out a semiautomatic rifle, police told the Banner-Herald.
The gunmen forced the resident upstairs, where his roommates were. One of those roommates wrestled a gun from one of the accused robbers and the gun went off.
A bullet hit the wall and neighbors looked outside in time to see two men running toward a silver car with a man in the driver’s seat, police told the newspaper.
Police are still searching for additional people who may have been involved.
The roommates said the robbers took a television set and PlayStation 4, but police noted in their report they think drugs were involved.
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