ATLANTA - Atlanta police say they are actively investigating after a 16-year-old was robbed of a $2,000 necklace outside The Peaks of MLK Apartments last week.

What they're saying:

The victim’s mother, Denetra Dawkins, said her son was attacked just minutes before a 14-year-old was shot at the nearby Hamilton Holmes MARTA station.

"He told me he had got robbed. I said, ‘So, what they take?’ He said, ‘Momma, they took my chain.’ He was talking in disbelief," Dawkins said.

The KIPP Collegiate Scholar had just gotten off work and taken the train to the Hamilton Holmes station last Thursday night. Dawkins said her son was walking toward his grandfather’s house when three teens confronted him at gunpoint.

"My son said when he turned his back to walk to his grandad's house, somebody hit h

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