Atlanta police continue to investigate a pair of recent armed carjackings at a popular southeast Atlanta shopping center.
The carjackings occurred in a four-day period at the Edgewood Retail District at the corner of Caroline Street and Moreland Avenue.
Thursday night, a woman exiting her 2008 Ford Focus in the parking lot of Ross Dress for Less was accosted by three men who had been hiding behind a wall adjacent to the store, according to an Atlanta police incident report.
“When the victim exited her vehicle to go into the trunk, one suspect, armed with a black pistol, approached her and demanded her car keys and cell phone,” the report stated.
When the woman tried to get back into her car, the gunman told her, “give me your car” and “give me your phone,” then hit her in the face with his fist and pulled her out of the car, according to the report.
The suspect got into the car, backed out of the parking space, and the other two males jumped in and fled south on Moreland Avenue.
The victim sustained a minor cut to her lower lip.
Early Sunday, an employee of the Target store in the same shopping center was arriving for work about 4 a.m., when he was carjacked at gunpoint.
That victim was getting out of his 2000 Saturn LS when the gunman, armed with a silver revolver, ordered him out of his car, pointed the gun at him and told him to “walk off,” according to police.
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