New details emerged Friday about the "convoluted" carjacking Thursday night of a vehicle with an infant inside.
The baby was later found safe, in a car seat near the intersection of Jesse Hill Jr. Drive and Coca Cola Place.
According to an Atlanta police incident report released late Friday morning, Kerry Clemons Jr. and Patricia Hakim traveled from Tennessee to Atlanta to “meet a guy to make a mixtape.” Their 4-month-old child was with them.
The pair told police they met a guy who they only knew by the nickname “Stuff” on Orlando Drive, and Stuff got into their vehicle and directed them to a location where they were to meet with the man that was going to do the mixtape.
“When they arrived at the unknown location,” the report states, “… the gentleman was waiting for them in the front yard of what appeared to be an abandoned house.”
Clemons and Stuff followed the man around the side of the house to the backyard, where the man pulled a gun on Clemons and asked him “where the money is,” according to the report.
Clemons told police he fell as he backed away from the man, who kicked him in the face, then robbed him of $200 in his pocket and his cell phone.
The robber then ran off, and Clemons and Stuff returned to the vehicle.
Stuff told Clemons that he “was going to make this right,” and told Hakim to drive back to his house on Orlando Drive so he could get his cell phone, according to the report.
Stuff then directed Hakim to another house where he said the suspected robber lived. The suspect came outside, and Stuff pulled a gun and forced the unnamed robbery suspect into the vehicle. Stuff then told Hakim to drive to an abandoned house on Estes Street.
Once there, Stuff and the unnamed robbery suspect got out and went behind the house. They returned and pulled Hakim and Clemons out of the vehicle, striking Hakim in the eye with a fist.
Stuff and the unnamed suspect then jumped into the vehicle and sped off, with the 4-month-old child inside.
A vehicle matching the stolen vehicle’s description was later found on fire, but police had not determined if it was the stolen vehicle.
Clemons told police that he had hidden about $3,600 in the child’s car seat for safekeeping, but police found no money in the seat when the baby was found abandoned on Jesse Hill Drive.
The case remains under investigation.
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