A Clark Atlanta University student was pistol-whipped during an armed robbery Monday morning, just two days after a student at neighboring Morehouse College was shot in the foot during a holdup.
The latest incident happened around 9 a.m. Monday as the male student was getting out of a vehicle on Larkin Street.
The victim told police that two men ran up behind him, and one of them told him, “Don’t move,” while the other struck him in the forehead with a handgun, Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The student said the men then took a laptop out of his book bag and his iPhone out of his hand. The suspects also took the student’s wallet out of his pocket, but dropped it as they were running away, police said.
Emergency medical personnel from Grady Memorial Hospital treated the student for a bruise to his forehead.
Early Saturday, a Morehouse student was walking along Euharlee Street with three classmates when they were approached by a robber armed with a semi-automatic handgun.
The gunman fired a warning shot into the ground, and the bullet ricocheted off the pavement and struck the student. That student was also not seriously injured.
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