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Posted: 2:05 p.m. Thursday, March 8, 2012

2 Georgia Tech students robbed at gunpoint

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Georgia Tech 10/5/2011
John Spink, AJC
Police were stepping up patrols on the Georgia Tech campus after a third report of a woman being grabbed on campus.

By Sabrina Gibbons

Georgia Tech police are looking for two men who robbed two students at gunpoint.

According to an incident report, the students were leaving the campus library when the attack occurred. The two suspects got out of a white van that had pulled up close to the students, who were getting into their car, near the intersection of Fowler Street and Bobby Dodd Way just before 3 a.m. Thursday.

One of the men had a gun and told the students to drop their backpacks "and to not look at him," stated the police report.

Police say the suspects made off with the students' backpacks and cell phones. Both of the backpacks contained Macbook laptops with chargers. The men also took a purse from one of the students that contained a debit card and $50 in cash.

The robbers were last seen driving in the van down Bobby Dodd Way.

Georgia Tech sent out an alert to students following the robbery. The gunman is described as a man in his early 20's with "dark brown skin," 6 feet tall and weighing 150 pounds. The other man was was also described as being in his mid-20s, wearing a green jacket.

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