Nanny Cam Video May ID Armed Robber, Police Hope

ATLANTA, GA — Police hope that the images captured by a surveillance video in a Buckhead-area home will help them identify a man who has been terrorizing northwest Atlanta for the last two weeks.

On Friday morning, the suspect entered the home of Barbara Lyles Anderson, according to ABC News, carrying what appears to be an assault rifle. Anderson was home in bed watching TV; the man entered through an unlocked kitchen door.

The man told Anderson to lie on her bed with her face in a pillow. He left with several pieces of jewelry, a TV, her cellphone and a tablet.

Later that day, a man fitting a similar description broke into another house four miles away; he was captured on a nanny-cam surveillance video. The owners were not home at the time.

According to a police report, "The male walks in the residence and began to move the TV from the family room wall along with a laptop computer. Shortly after the male returns bearing what appeared to be a black AK-47 assault rifle."

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Police also believe the same man may be connected to a robbery at Whittier Mills Park earlier this month. A photographer who was scouting locations for a photo shoot told police that a man drove up to her in a white Dodge Charger, and pretended to be another photographer. He then pulled an assault rifle on her, told her to face a nearby wall and get on the ground.

The man, described as an African American who a goatee and short haircut, then dumped the woman's purse, took her car keys and looked through her car. He then took the keys and ran away.

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