According to police, armed robbers broke into Atlanta’s home in retired NBA player Vince Carter while his wife and children were inside, stealing nearly $ 100,000 in cash over the weekend.
Carter’s wife, Sondy Carter, and the couple’s two sons hid in the closet on Sunday night, and a thief broke a window on the ground floor and plundered a 10,000-square-foot home in Atlanta’s wealthy Buckhead district. Atlanta Police Station.
Reportedly, Sondy Carter told police that he was in bed with his two sons when he heard a loud noise from the front at 11:50 pm. She grabbed her sons and heard the three hiding together in the bedroom closet, running upstairs upstairs and examining family belongings in various rooms.
Sondy Carter said he called 911 from within the closet and sent a text message to a nearby patrol.
An off-duty Atlanta PD officer patroling the neighborhood responded, wearing all black clothes and masks and chasing until the suspect jumped on a black SUV and speeded up.
Police officers soon arrived at the house and found a $ 16,100-equivalent $ 100 bill spilling on the ground outside the gated house.
However, the money recovered was only part of the $ 100,000 that Vince Carter had lost from the brown bag he had kept in his bedroom closet, a former Hawks player who retired in 2020 told police. ..
Police also reportedly found a gold Desert Eagle firearm owned by Vince Carter still in the gun case, and a black Glock 26 with an expanded magazine outside the house.
Police believe that Glock was left behind by a thief.
According to the report, inside the house, police officers found that the windows on the ground floor had been completely destroyed, several rooms were cluttered, and the gate at the top of the stairs had been unhinged.
Police officers took pictures of the scene and lifted fingerprints from the side doors that the suspect might have used to escape the house. They also collected surveillance videos from cameras on the premises.
Sondy Carter and her sons were unharmed during the invasion.
According to real estate records, Vince Carter, who has played for 22 seasons in the NBA and is currently working as an ESPN NBA analyst, bought a home and about one and a half acres of real estate for nearly $ 7 million in August 2020. did.
Investigation is ongoing.
With post wire
