A Georgia Tech student escaped serious injury Monday night when he was pistol-whipped and robbed in his dorm room.
According to a crime alert posted online by Georgia Tech police, the incident happened about 10 p.m. Monday on the fourth floor of the North Avenue Apartments South Building.
The victim told police that he was robbed by four males who followed him into his dorm room.
Two of the suspects were wearing Halloween masks, while a third was wearing a ski mask, according to Tech police. At least one of the men was armed with a handgun.
The student, 19-year-old Justin Myers, received minor injuries, but refused treatment.
Myers told Channel 2 Action News that his assailants pushed him to the floor and pistol-whipped him, knocking out a tooth.
"He hit me one time and I went to the ground," Myers told the TV station. "I wasn't trying to resist. One of them just held a gun to me whe whole time, just hitting and kicking me."
Myers told Channel 2 that the suspects were in his apartment for about a half hour, ransacking the room and looking for anything of value.
They made him take off his clothes and stole his laptop, cellphone and a roommate's flat screen television.
Myers was the fourth Tech student to be robbed on or near the northwest Atlanta campus in just over a month.
On Dec. 5, a male student had parked his car on Hunnicutt Street south of campus and was removing items from the back seat when he was struck in the back of the head.
"When he turned, he observed two males armed with handguns," Tech police said in a crime alert. "One male pointed a handgun and demanded the student's property."
That student was not injured.
On Nov. 11, two male students were tied up and robbed during a home invasion at their house on Ethel Street, in the Home Park neighborhood just north of the Tech campus. The victims were struck by the three suspects, but were not seriously injured, according to Tech police.
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