Woman Flees Gunman At Downtown Decatur Bank ATM

A woman says a man pointed a pistol at her the night of Feb. 26 while she tried to deposit checks in the Wells Fargo ATM drive-through.

She drove away without her ATM card and saw the man and an accomplice pull it out of the ATM, the police report said. The man didn't fire the pistol and the woman wasn't hurt in the incident at 315 W. Ponce de Leon Ave.

This was the neighborhood's second armed robbery in 19 days. On Feb. 7, two men, one armed with a pistol, confronted two women pedestrians at Ponce de Leon Place and Montgomery Street, about 100 yards from the ATM. The men took their purses and ran away.

The police report gives this account of the most recent incident:

The woman pulled her Hyundai Elantra into the drive-through lane about 9 p.m. to make a deposit but drove away because she saw two males walk from behind the building and became nervous.

They kept walking so she returned to the ATM to try again. She noticed one of the men in her rear view mirror, pushed the "cancel" key on the ATM and retrieved her checks.

She saw the other man standing close to the front of the car and pointing a pistol at her, so she accelerated out of the drive-through, leaving her card behind.

Both suspects were described as black with slim frames. One was 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-7 wearing a white hoodie. The second was 5-foot-5 and may have been wearing a green top.

She saw a white compact vehicle driving away from the area but didn't know if it was connected to the robbery.