ATLANTA — Police have arrested Dominique Dawson in connection with a pistol-whipping incident that took place on Dec. 1.
Dawson has been charged with aggravated assault and armed robbery, according to a police reports.
The family of a teen pistol-whipped and robbed are not happy with the response by police after the attack.
It happened near Campbellton Road and Honeysuckle Lane in southwest Atlanta Tuesday night around 11.
"I thought I was going to die," DeAngela Hines, 17, said, breaking in tears as she recalled what happened.
What her mother says happened after Atlanta police arrived infuriates her.
"No sense of urgency at all," she said of the officer who arrived on scene.
"The two men followed behind me," DeAngela told Channel 2s Tom Jones, as she described what happened that night.
She was walking home from her part-time job at Wendy's.
A quarter of mile from home, she called her mother to meet her and walk the rest of the way home. Her mother was on the way. And so were two gunmen.
"He pulled out the gun and pointed it at my face," DeAngela said, showing how she put her hands up.
Then she says the robber hit her in the head with his gun and took her book bag. Blood was everywhere. She was taken to the hospital and had to be stitched up.
"I saw the entire incident," Andre Dearing said.
Dearing says he chased the gunmen but they disappeared. He says when an officer arrived he didn't seem eager to find them.
"There was no call for any back-up. No sense of urgency," he said.
DeAngela's mother says she was sure a police surveillance camera that seemed to be pointed where the attack captured the suspects. That wasn't the case.
"I was told by an officer that they were pointed in the wrong direction," Patrice McLeroy said.
She says a video from the Citgo gas station showed the suspects and the car they were driving. She says police need to release that video.
"Like why aren't their faces ... being on the news," McLeroy said.
This has had an adverse impact on DeAngela.
"I feel like I'm not important or I don't matter to them," she said of police.
Atlanta police said they were gathering info before responding to the family's allegations. Police did say they are investigating and are reviewing video related to the incident.