More Georgia State University robberies were reported this week making five in the last two weeks, according to campus police reports.

The latest was reported Wednesday afternoon outside the Aderhold Learning Center, according to a campus-wide alert campus police sent out Wednesday around 4 p.m.

Another was reported by a student walking Monday afternoon near Piedmont Ave. and Auditorium Place.

Another student, on Oct. 31, reported having her cell phone snatched from her hand. The third student said a trio of bandits choked him, slammed him to the ground and kicked him on the night of Oct. 30, before taking his backpack in the Lanier parking deck at John Wesley Dobbs Avenue and Jesse Hill Jr. Drive.

Other cell phone robberies were reported on Oct. 12 at Decatur Street and Kimball Way and on Oct. 14 on Luckie Street.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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