ATLANTA — Police are searching for a group of robbers who held up a 14-year-old girl at the bus stop Thursday morning.
Witnesses told Channel 2’s Carl Willis that three men robbed the teen and shoved her down at the bus stop.
One witness said he heard the girl scream for help.
"Like bloodcurdling, like, extremely loud. You can hear it all the way up the street and stuff," Holt Marbut told Willis. "We just looked out here and she was, like, crying and it looked like she threw something."
According to a police report, it was just after 8 a.m. Thursday morning when a Jeep occupied by three males stopped at the busy intersection along DeFoors Ferry Road, one of the suspects got out and approached the young victim.
"We see her standing there every morning when I take him right there," said parent John Marbut.
Even with other students gathering nearby, the suspect snatched her phone and shoved her and then jumped back into the Jeep headed toward Bolton Road.
"That's one of the real shames about this, is that you got a kid at the right place at the right time doing the right thing and they get attacked like that," said neighbor Drew Gregory.
Neighbors in the Westover Plantation subdivision and down Fernleaf Court are making sure parents, and especially students who take the bus, are aware of the attack.
"I would imagine you'll see a lot of parents out with their kids here waiting for the bus," Gregory said.
“It might be a little weird and nerve-wracking to see if the same person comes back and stuff,” Marbut said.
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