Thieves use open door, tie up, rob Tech students

Apartment door left open due to air conditioner issue.

Two Georgia Tech students were tied up and robbed early Monday by two men who entered their northwest Atlan- ta apartment through a door left open because of a malfunctioning air conditioner.

The incident happened just before 3 a.m. at the Centennial Apartments on Lovejoy Street, a couple of blocks south of the Tech campus.

“The students stated that they had the door to their apartment open due to their air conditioning not working,” Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said in an email.

Jones said two men entered the apartment, one armed with a handgun.

“The subjects tied the two victims up with socks, took all of their electronic items, along with $120 in U.S. currency, and then fled the scene,” Jones said.

The students were not injured.

A campus alert posted by Georgia Tech police described one of the suspects as a 5-foot-7, 190-pound man between 20 and 30 years old. He had short hair and possibly a tattoo on his face and was wearing a black shirt, gray jeans and silver necklaces.

The second suspect, described as a 6-foot-2, 200-pound man between 30 and 40, was wearing a yellow collared shirt, a black undershirt, black pants and a black baseball cap, and was armed with a gray handgun with an orange barrel.

Anyone with information was asked to call Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-8477.