UPDATE: Carjacking Suspects Elude DeKalb Police

DeKalb County police are continuing the search for two men they say robbed two men at gunpoint, stole their vehicle, and led police on a chase which caused Emory University to send out a ‘shelter in place’ alert Tuesday morning.

Officers responded to a carjacking call at 751 N. Indian Creek Drive at approximately 3:45 a.m., spokesman S.R. Fore tells Patch. Once on the scene, two male victims informed the officers that they were sitting in their vehicle, a black Jeep Wrangler, when they were approached by two young black males in their teens dressed all in black armed with handguns. The males robbed the victims of personal belongings and then ordered them out of the vehicle. The two suspects then fled in the Jeep Wrangler.

Police sent out a BOLO (Be On the LookOut) for the stolen Jeep, and it was spotted on Memorial Drive near Memorial College Avenue. Officers attempted to pull the vehicle over, but it fled from them down Memorial Drive to N. Decatur Road, then turned right onto Haygood Drive. Police lost the vehicle after that, Fore said, but found it abandoned on Eagle Row some time later.

A perimeter was established and search conducted for the suspects with the assistance of K9, Fore said. The suspects were not located. The vehicle was impounded for processing, and The investigation is ongoing.

Emory issued an all clear just after 6 a.m., after awakening nearby residents with sirens and the campus community with emergency text alerts advising them to shelter in place.

In a follow-up message on Twitter, the Emory’s press office wrote that a carjacking had occurred nearby and that Dekalb County police and Emory police were in pursuit of the suspects on the Emory campus.

The original shelter-in-place notification was issued at 5:24am.

No word yet on what gave police the confidence to issue the all-clear. Patch will be updating this page as we learn more details about the early-morning incident.