Two friends and I left a party at 10:50 p.m. on Labor Day and walked down Ethel Street. I followed Sam and Katie (names have been changed) back to their house across Fourteenth, staying in well-lit areas and conscious of our surroundings.
We turned from Ethel onto Mecaslin and were half a block down when the car approached the corner behind us, pulling past the stop sign and pausing in the intersection. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, but I played it off as humor. I turned to Sam and Katie and said, “We’ve got company,†like a line from a
bad movie.
The car doors flew open and two men in dark hoodies came running at us. I saw the silhouette of a semi-automatic in their hands and did the most stereotypical horror movie damsel-in-distress thing possible.
Flashing blue lights appeared five minutes after. A GTPD officer listened as we recounted the incident, stumbling over the suspects’ descriptions for the Clery Act alert.
The Clery Act alert reported no injuries but I’ve got an ugly scar on my knee and I flinch whenever I’m walking outside and see a stranger coming or going my way. Getting mugged was a small blip of a tragedy compared to worse in Atlanta, but it changed my concept of safety and left odd impulses in its wake.
Clery Act Safety Alert Off Campus Armed Robbery Incident Date/Time: September 4, 2017, at approximately 10:55 p.m. Incident Location: Ethel Street at Mecaslin Street in the Home Park neighborhood Incident Description: Two Georgia Tech students and one Georgia State University student were walking towards their residence in Home Park when they were approached by the suspects. One of the suspects displayed a handgun and demanded the victims' property. The victims complied and the males were last seen leaving the area in a dark colored sedan headed north towards Fourteenth Street. There were no injuries reported. Descriptions of Suspects: Suspect One Male Maroon colored shirt Light colored pants Armed with a handgun S uspect Two Male Suspect Vehicle: Dark colored sedan Status of Investigation: This incident is being investigated by the Atlanta Police Department. Report any information regarding this and other criminal incidents to Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404 - 577 - TI PS (8477) . See Something, Say Something Report any information regarding this and other criminal incidents to the Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) by calling 404 - 894 - 2500 or by emailing crimetips@police.gatech.edu . In addition, you can help GTPD and the community fight crime. Don't look the other way or ignore suspicious activity. If you see something that prompts concern, say something and notify GTPD immediately.
The attacker might be offended. I'm amazed the gender can be reported without offending the attackers. They may identify themselves as female or whatever.
This has been a pet peeve of mine for a while. I mean it's not racist to use the descriptor. I've caught the AJC doing it, the student newspaper at GA Southern(I think, don't quote me), etc.
I cannot figure out what she is trying to convey. Seems that she is saying she got her badge of honor for victimhood. She has a scar on her knee so she gets stars and palm leaves. Or something like that?
I cannot figure out what she is trying to convey. Seems that she is saying she got her badge of honor for victimhood. She has a scar on her knee so she gets stars and palm leaves. Or something like that?
Only a liberal would feel sorry for someone who attacked them. A conservative might feel sorry for a person living on the street, but that compassion ends when the person attacks. That person wasn't stealing a loaf of bread out of an open car trunk, just to try to survive another day. That might be somewhat understandable.
I few years before her time there, but a Tech student was murdered in East Atlanta, oh, I want to say 4-5 years ago (around the time the farmer's market started there). Similar scenario - kid walking home after a night out, but this time it was some thug out to make his bones.
It's gentrifying, so folks forget, but you're crazy if you walk anywhere south of I-20 unarmed, especially at night.
(Three black youths even robbed a few families playing in Ormewood Park around noon a few years ago. Pretty unsettling.)
DH
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