ATLANTA, Ga. — One man said he was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to withdraw money from an ATM.
Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri learned it's the second time in two days a crime exactly like that has happened in the area.
According to incident reports from Atlanta police, two nights in a row, two different people were forced at gunpoint to drive criminals to the ATM on Flat Shoals Avenue in southeast Atlanta to take out cash.
Neighbor Abby Larimer says burglars have hit the home she shares with her boyfriend but they're alarmed by the increase in violent crimes.
“I saw two men approaching and it took me probably a second to recognize he was pointing a gun at me,” one neighbor said.
The Grant Park neighbor asked us not to identify him and says he was forced into his car at gunpoint moments after pulling up to his Rosalia Street home Thursday evening.
“He said, ‘Where's the money?’ and I said, ‘I honestly have no money on me,’ and he said ‘Well we're going to take a trip to the ATM,’” he said.
He told Viteri the man forced him into his own car and went to the Bank of America, where he was forced to withdraw $400. Another man told police the same thing happened to him just after 2 a.m. Thursday when he left a bar on Flat Shoals Avenue. Two men with a gun forced him to go to the same ATM in his car.
Both victims said the gunmen got out on Glenwood Avenue near Interstate 20 with a parting threat.
“They were going to watch me and if I didn't get on the on-ramp they were going to shoot me,” the victim said.