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Nearby Dunwoody: Kids Have Harrowing Encounter With Armed Burglars


Nearby Dunwoody, a 19-year-old encountered an armed burglar in the doorway of his parents’ bedroom, shortly after he woke-up, last Thursday.

According to a Sandy Springs Police report, the suspect pointed a light colored, possibly silver, handgun at the teen and said, “Get back in your room.”  The teen backed into his room, locked the door and called 911.

Investigators are looking for two suspects in the Thursday burglary on Burdette Road in Sandy Springs. The suspects are described as white males. The teen told police one the men resembled a painter and appeared to be six-feet-tall, with a slim to athletic build, a goatee and short brown hair. 

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Only the 19-year-old and his younger sister were home sometime after 12 p.m., the police report said. The sister told police that she was in her bedroom when she heard the front doorbell ring five times. She looked out the window to see a blue Mercedes sedan in the driveway with a white male passenger in the front seat. 

The vehicle left and then returned 20 minutes later. Someone rang the doorbell three times, the report said. The sister called out to her parents and when no one responded she phoned her mother from inside her bedroom.

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Her older brother went down to the kitchen after hearing the doorbell and found the back door had been forced open. He immediately went back upstairs, the report said, and spotted the suspect at his parents' bedroom door, holding a pillowcase with items inside

The teen told police that the suspect’s gun had a laser light on it that never hit him but landed on the wall about five to six feet in front of him.

He only saw one suspect and his sister did not see either of them [except in the car], however the brother said he heard two people running down the hallway and one of them shouted, “Let’s get out of here.”

Several thousands of dollars in valuables were stolen from the home, the report said. Police obtained fingerprints left at the crime scene and they have a list of companies that performed outdoor services at the home recently.

Police said at this time, there does not appear to be any link between those companies and the home invasion.


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