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12-year-old girl robbed at knifepoint while walking home, police say

DUNWOODY, Ga. — A 12-year-old girl said a man robbed her while she was walking home from a friend's house.

The girl was walking in the Mill Glen subdivision, a community that's not used to crime, when she said a man with a knife attacked her. The incident happened last Friday around 6 p.m.

“Scared to death! Of course because it happened on an area where both of my kids walk our dog,” neighbor Sharon Troncale said.

Troncale does not know the victim, but she, like many other parents in the Mill Glen subdivision, is not taking any more chances when it comes to her children’s safety.

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Police said the man demanded cash and threatened to cut the girl if she did not comply.

"The juvenile victim reported that she heard a van pulling up to her as she was walking. A man exited
the van and grabbed her by the waist," the Dunwoody Police Department public information officer said. "At that point, the male demanded her cash and threatened to cut her if she did not give him the cash."

The young victim described her attacker as a young, dark-skinned African American male with a mohawk and a 1-inch scar across his jaw line.

“It certainly appears to be a random act. We have not had any similar areas in that area before or since the attack,” the Dunwoody Police Department public information officer said.

As police continue their search, Troncale said she’ll continue to keep a close eye on her children until investigators make an arrest.

“I have now brought them to the pool, rather than let them walk to the pool and picking them up, rather than letting them walk home,” Troncale said.

Police believe the armed robber may be in high school and between the ages of 16 and 18. His victim reported seeing him in an old, gold van with a very loud exhaust pipe.

If you have any information, you're asked to call police.