Monday, September 23, 2013
ATLANTA - Authorities say an off-duty Atlanta police officer was held at gunpoint and then carjacked at a traffic light.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the crime happened around 3 a.m. Sunday on North Avenue at Argonne Avenue.
Atlanta police spokesman Officer John Chafee said the suspect walked to the officer's vehicle and pointed a handgun at him. The suspect demanded the officer's phone and ordered him to leave his vehicle.
Police later located the vehicle - as well as a pistol the officer had inside it - near the corner of Freemont and Adelle streets.
The suspect remains at large.