STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. — Neighbors in Stockbridge are on edge after they say thieves broke into dozens of cars overnight at two Henry County apartment complexes.
Channel 2′s Justin Carter said it was something he had never seen before.
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Neighbors living on Rock Quarry Road woke up to multiple car windows shattered and their items tossed and tampered with.
Stockbridge Police said a group of thieves hit 132 cars in two apartment complexes, and Carter was told they got away with several guns.
“Listen, I woke up to a storm...not the weather but a thief in the night,” Kevin Varnell said.
Sweeping glass into a dustpan was not how Warnell wanted to spend his Sunday morning.
“Both of my cars, my daughter’s car, everything just destroyed and chaos,” Varnell said.
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A group of thieves rocked the Abbey at Eagles Landing Apartment complex and the North Park at Eagles Landing apartments in the middle of the night.
Neighbors say it was coordinated and deliberate, as overnight storms made it hard to see and hear.
Varnell says his gun was stolen.
Marcus Brinson’s gun is missing, too, from his silver Nissan.
“It’s really like a violation in a sense because everybody here works so hard for what they have,” Brinson explained.
One neighbor told us he saw a group of young men, possibly teenagers, run from the area around 4 a.m. There were about seven of them.
“They were definitely organized. They knew what they were doing because not one car alarm went off,” Brinson said.
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Neighbors said break-ins to this scale have never happened, and trees often block the cameras at the complex. They say apartment management hasn’t been helpful.
“We really don’t feel like the rent office is doing enough or the property owners themselves are doing enough,” Brinson said.
“We pay for security, and you would think this is covered. We just want some answers,” Varnell explained.
Channel 2 Action News has reached out to the Abbey at Eagles Landing Apartments, but the office was closed.
Stockbridge Police confirmed 84 vehicles were hit at one apartment complex and 48 at another.
Officials could not distinguish which location had 84 or 48 vehicles broken into. However, officials confirmed the total was 132. The investigation is ongoing.
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