Source: APD Addresses Crime Near Ga Tech

Sources said Wednesday that a high level meeting at Atlanta police headquarters produced a new strategy for stopping robberies of college students. More than a dozen robberies have occurred around the Georgia Tech campus in a two month period.

On Monday, June 29, a Georgia Tech student has been robbed at gunpoint becoming the 12th person to be robbed near the campus since February.

The thieves hit University of Phoenix student Eric Mills as he was walking home at the corner of Centennial Olympic Park Drive, three blocks south of Georgia Tech.

Mills said he was walking to his apartment in the Centennial Place complex about 1 a.m. when he was attacked by two men wearing masks, and one was armed.

Early Wednesday, June 24, another person was robbed at gunpoint near the Georgia Tech campus -- the ninth such attack in recent months.

The overnight robbery came one day after police announced an arrest in the shooting of Georgia Tech student Patrick Whaley.

The 22-year-old Whaley was attacked in a parking garage on Northside Drive. Seventeen-year-old Deanglo Love, 19-year-old Maurice Brown and an unnamed person are accused of the crime.

Police in Zone 5 said there are a number of robbing crews targeting people near the Georgia Tech campus.
Both campus and Atlanta police have stepped up patrols in the area, vowing to put an end to the robberies.