Home invasions leave Buckhead neighborhood on edge
Twenty minutes dragged by after Andrew Allman placed the 911 call about intruders crashing into this house through the locked back door.
Turns out the police weren't 20 minutes late. They were just down the street in Allman's south Buckhead neighborhood, having answered a call on a different home invasion.
Allman was fortunate. With his alarm blaring, he figured the intruders wouldn't hang around, and they didn't. Instead, they grabbed his car keys and drove away in the family's Mercedes SUV, which was later found crashed in College Park.
“Our whole neighborhood feels extremely violated,” Allman said. “People feel the need to get firearms, which can’t end well.”
Bill Torpy reports in his MyAJC.com column, Bill Torpy at Large.
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Bill Torpy, who writes about metro Atlanta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined the newspaper in 1990.
