Albany State students robbed at gunpoint in East Albany

ALBANY — Three Albany State University students were followed from an East Albany gas station early Tuesday morning, then robbed at gunpoint in a nearby field, police officials say.

Chad Reaves told officers of the Albany Police Department that he and his friends, Naim Kishun and Tyshondrick Story, all students at Albany State University, had just left Woodall’s gas station on the 200 block of East Oglethorpe Boulevard shortly after midnight when he noticed a white Chevrolet Impala had pulled out from the station and was traveling close behind their car.

The victims continued from Woodall’s “a few yards,” Reaves stated, then parked in a field across from some apartments located in the 200 block of North Broadway Court. According to Reaves, the Impala quickly pulled in front of the parked vehicle and three unknown men, two of them with handguns, exited the Impala and approached the victims in their car.

Reaves told police that the items taken by the bandits included a brown Polo wallet and a book bag. No injuries were reported in the incident and no arrests have yet been made, police officials say.