Douglasville Man Arrested After Armed Robbery and 18-Mile Chase

Phillip King Redmond III, 21, of Douglasville, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the robbery of a Dunwoody woman at gunpoint early Tuesday and led police on an 18-mile chase.

Police but are still seeking the second man involved in the armed robbery. 

On Tuesday, around 3:45 am., Dunwoody Police were called to the Walton Apartments, 1000 Ashwood Pkwy. on a report of an armed robbery.

The victim had arrived home and she was approached by two black males wearing black clothing, who had their faces covered with red bandanas, police said.

The men came up on both sides of her vehicle, bothwith handguns and demanded her purse and took all the bags in her car. Police say they then demanded she pop open her trunk.

The victim reported that a similar car had followed her to her apartment after she left work on a prior occasion. She hadn’t reported that initial incident to police.  

After the robbery, the men fled on foot to Crown Point Parkway.

On their way to the scene, police saw a vehicle heading south on Ashford Dunwoody Road that matched the description given by the victim.

Officers tried to pull over the car, a tan 1997 Cadillac DeVille The vehicle stopped on the westbound entrance to 285, but as officers got out to approach the car, the driver began driving away.

Police chased the car west on 285. The driver finally exited at Donald Hollowell Parkway, just north of I-20.

The vehicle kept the chase up through the City of Atlanta, finally turning into an apartment complex at 4505 Fairburn Rd., where the driver drove to the back of the complex and struck a telephone pole, police said.

There, the driver and passenger hopped out of the car and fled on foot into the woods.

Dunwoody police believe the duo fled the area in a silver truck at a high rate of speed.

In the abandoned Cadillac, police recovered several items, including a handgun, items stolen from the victim and clothing that was identified by the victim as having been worn by the suspects.

Redmond was arrested after further investigation, police said. His accomplice has not been caught.

Redmond was arrested on charges of felony armed robbery and is being held in the DeKalb County Jail

If anyone has any information regarding this incident or identity of the second subject involved they are urged to contact Dunwoody Police, Det. Robert Bentivegna at 678-382-6911 or Robert.bentivegna@dunwoodyga.gov. You may also submit an anonymous tip by accessing www.dunwoodypolice.com and clicking on “submit a tip."