Police seek 2 armed robbers who took Ga. teen from home

Michael Winter | USA TODAY

Georgia authorities are seeking two armed robbers who kidnapped a 14-year-old girl during a home invasion early Tuesday after her mother told them she didn't have money or jewelry.

A statewide AMBER Alert was issued for Ayvani Hope Perez of Ellenwood, Ga., outside Atlanta. She is 4 feet, 9 inches tall, weighs 93 pounds and was last seen wearing blue-and-gray Star Wars pajamas and a blue-and-gray "Super Hero" shirt.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released sketches of the suspects, who were driving a gray Dodge or Chevrolet.

Clayton County Officer Phong Nguyen said the robbers pried open a back door about 2:15 a.m. Ayvani's mother tried to hide her daughter and 15-year-old son, but the gunmen found them. After their mother said she had neither cash nor jewels, one gunman shot and wounded the dog but did not harm Ayvani's mother or brother.

Police said that Ayvani is believed to be in extreme danger.

"If someone's going to shoot a dog like the two suspects did, just imagine what else they would do," Nguyen told WXIA-TV in Atlanta.

Nguyen said Ayvani and her family had moved in just a month ago and apparently did not know the robbers.

Neighbors were stunned by the crime.

"We always have police around this area," Maties Otalis, a father of four who has lived in the neighborhood near Interstate 675 for two years, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I don't expect such (things) to happen in my neighborhood. I feel like moving out of this area."