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Nearly 40 carjackings in 2 months have Atlanta drivers on edge

By Nefertiti Jaquez
By Nefertiti Jaquez

ATLANTA — Channel 2 Action News uncovered that there has been as many as 35 carjackings in just four weeks across metro Atlanta.

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Too scared to show her face, one victim recalled the moment two men forced her to stare down a barrel of a gun before they carjacked her.

"What were you feeling in that moment?" Channel 2's Nefertiti Jaquez asked.

“I thought they were going to kill me,” she said. “I thought they were going to shoot me dead.”

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It happened on Oct. 20 around 9 p.m. at the Capital Gateway apartments along Connally Street.

The victim said she had just pulled into her gated community when two men jumped out of their sedan, threatened her life and took off with her 2014 Honda Civic.

“I’m just scared,” she said.

Her fear is why Jaquez decided to pull Atlanta police records.

While digging Jaquez learned crime in the city is down 11 percent this year. However, criminals have committed 35 carjackings in 28 days.

Assistant Chief Shawn Jones was open when we asked about those numbers and told Jaquez carjackings are a legitimate concern because while young, the bad guys are armed:.

“We have seen juveniles as young as nine being involved,” Jones said. “What we have found is that they use those to commit other crimes, such as robberies, burglaries, and we also found that they take the cars to Alabama and are selling them on Craigslist.”

The victim said she feels her complex is partly to blame since the suspects were already inside the gated complex when she got home, but when we asked the property owners about it, they said the gate is not to prevent crime but to control the flow of traffic

Meanwhile, they also released a statement, reading in part, "Currently, we are working with the Atlanta Police Department to ensure this isolated incident does not occur again, and are taking precautionary measures to educate our residents on how they can prevent themselves from being a victim of crime."

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