ATLANTA — Police are looking for a man who was caught on surveillance video inside a parking garage after a woman was robbed at gunpoint.
It was the second robbery at the same apartment complex in two days.
The robberies happened at the One12 Courtland Apartments near the Georgia State University campus. Mostly college students live in the building.
Students told Channel 2's Matt Johnson that a security guard is supposed to be posted at the front desk along with another one checking cars as they drive into the parking deck.
Some of the residents told Johnson that suspicious visitors are common.
“People just enter, and people just go wherever they want to go,” resident Oluchi Ekwegh said.
“(There’s) really no one patrolling around, so I feel like it could be safer,” resident Ambreya Hughes said.
Surveillance video shows a person of interest in the armed robbery early Wednesday morning in the parking deck.
Police say someone put a gun in the face of a 19-year-old woman and stole her purse.
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Just a day earlier, police say four people jumped a GSU student while he waited for an elevator inside.
“Out of nowhere one of them just punches me in the eye, takes my phone, they surround me, and they’re searching my pockets,” the victim told Johnson, asking not to be identified.
The man said he ran to the front desk to find a security guard.
“There was no security guard at the desk, so they just walked out of the doors and left,” the victim said. “I was just baffled that there was no security guard.”
Johnson contacted the complex’s management and a spokesperson said they've "asked the maintenance team to ensure all access points to the building are properly controlled."
For residents at the downtown complex, they say they've heard promises before and they want to feel safer.
“They need to get their act together,” Ekwegh said.
The victim Johnson spoke with said he's noticed security has been more attentive to who's driving in and out of the parking deck and keeping a log since the robberies
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