ATLANTA — Police are investigating several car break-ins overnight.
Thieves smashed the windows of four cars parked outside a TGI-Fridays along Camp Creek Parkway in southwest Atlanta Wednesday night.
Thieves took several items including a laptop in a backpack, an Applewatch and sandals. All of the vehicles had damage to the windows or door handles.
The area is a heavily populated shopping and dining area.
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Channel 2's Christian Jennings spoke with one woman who said she thought she was doing the right thing by parking in a well-lit area.
Muriam Finney said it did not stop thieves from smashing two of her car windows last night as she dined inside the restaurant for bike night. Finney said she talked to four other people whose cars were broken into to.
The TGIFridays is on a very busy and heavily-populated shopping and dining area off I-285.
Finney said it is not the first-time thieves have stolen things from her car while parked in the camp creek marketplace shopping center.
"This is the second, third time it’s happened, and the police are here. They’re sitting right here in front and I’m parked under a well-lit area, but it happens," Finney said.
Investigators are trying to determine if there is a connection between these break-ins and others in the area.
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