Posted on 06/24/2009 3:46:11 AM PDT by from occupied ga
(WSB Radio) Despite an increased police presence, armed robbers have struck again near the Georgia Tech campus.
This time it was at the Centennial Place Apartments, at Honeycutt and Lovejoy. And this time the victim lost his college bookbag containing his laptop.
Eric Mills was walking home early Wednesday morning when he noticed an SUV that made him suspicious.
"I continued walking and i'm on my cellphone, talking," Mills says. "All of a sudden, I felt a presence behind me."
Mills says he turned around and saw two men approaching him in "an aggressive manner."
Both were dressed in black. One of the two men had a gun.
"The asked me for my phone," Mills says, "and I threw my bookbag down thinking that my bookbag was more valuable."
Mills then tried running, using a car as a shield as he attempted to elude the two robbers.
"I was kind of dancing around the car as the guy is coming closer to me. The other guy with the gun is saying he's going to shoot me," he says.
Mills says all the robbers seem to want was his cellphone.
"I take off running, because this other guy is just coming at me. The other guy is coming at me, chases after me. I trip and I fall and he falls on my leg. We're both on the ground in the middle of the street. I cut my hand. I'm all cut up," Mills says.
Mills says he got up to run, but the second suspect, the one with the gun, was closer to him, pointing the gun at him and telling him to stop.
"He said 'I'm going to shoot you. Stop. What are you thinking?'"
Mills decided to run, again.
"As I take off in the middle of the street the guy that was on the floor, he gets up and he takes a couple of steps forward, to me.
"There were cars in the middle of the road, coming at me. I stopped the cars. No one came to help me," says Mills. "As I turned around, I saw them jumping in their car, with my bookbag and they take off."
Mills described the suspects as two black men, about 6'1 with light skin. He says the robbers were both wearing masks.
He believes the robbers were waiting for him, following him as he walked home. He also believes they were out looking for a college student and spotted him.
He also wonders why, just one day after another armed robbery, there was not a larger police presence in the area.
"I don't want to say anything about the police, because they've been kind to me," Mills says, "but why aren't the police roaming around and looking into cars or seeing people hanging around?
"These guys were waiting for me," he says. "They were waiting for someone. They're looking for college students. I'm as college student. So, college students beware."
Maybe, but thankfully most of the crooks are not awfully bright. As long as they don’t speed on the expressway, they’ll probably be safe :-)
When I was going to First Baptist Atlanta, a buddy of mine in my bible study class who was an FBI agent would say that when he was headed inside of 285 he’d always carry.
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