Arrests Made in Tech Student Shooting

ATLANTA (MyFOX ATLANTA) - Atlanta police announced Tuesday that two were arrests were made in the case of Georgia Tech student who was shot at an off-campus apartment complex on 10th Street.

Eighteen-year-old Deangelo Love was arrested June 10 and charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, kidnapping, armed robbery, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Nineteen-year-old Maurice Brown was also arrested June 10 and he was charged with aggravated assault, armed robbery and kidnapping.

A third person, who is in custody for unrelated charges, has a warrant pending in connection with the case.

The charges stem from the shooting of 23-year-old Georgia Tech student Patrick Whaley, a junior from Cumming, Georgia in early May.

Whaley had just moved into an apartment at the TenSide apartments on Northside Drive, near Georgia Tech's midtown campus when he was attacked.

Police said two armed men put a gun to Whaley's head and shot him in the back during an attempted carjacking.

Whaley was taken to Grady Hospital in critical condition, but has since been in recovery from his injuries.

Whaley's attack marked the first in a string of violent crimes near the Georgia Tech campus.

On May 25, armed men ransacked an off-campus home near the Georgia Tech campus.

One of the students said he and a roommate were sitting on the porch of a home in the Home Park neighborhood when three men approached them. The students said one of the gunmen fought with them while the other two robbed the house.

No one was hurt in the attack.

The robbery happened just blocks from where Whaley was shot earlier in the month.

On Saturday, June 20, Ryan Lorber, a senior at Georgia Tech, and James Kenney a former student went out for dinner and then headed home to meet friends when they said they were held up at gunpoint on Hampton Street, near 10th Street.

Kenney said the gunman left with his Blackberry and sunglasses. Neither man was injured in the attack.

Another Georgia Tech student was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday, June 23. The robbery happened about 1:00 a.m. on Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta when the student was walking to his apartment.

Police said the robber demanded everything the student was carrying. A neighbor who saw the incident started screaming for help. The robber got away with a pack of cigarettes.
The student was not identified.

Investigators said they were stepping up patrols in area following the rash of violent crimes and the university urged students to practice safety measures.