A Conyers man, 38-year-old Antavious Bailey, has admitted to an array of charges including armed robbery and kidnapping in a chilling home invasion of an 88-year-old woman in Brookhaven, DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston announced Monday. Bailey entered a guilty plea to the serious charges which also featured abuse of an elder person, false imprisonment, and identity fraud.
According to a report by the DeKalb County District Attorney's office, the incident occurred on August 2, 2022, when Bailey followed the senior victim from a grocery store to her Parkridge Drive residence. Upon arrival and unsuspecting danger, she was confronted and robbed at gunpoint by Bailey while unloading her groceries.
The victim was compelled to write down her pin number before Bailey bound her and threw her onto a bed after taking her cell phone, cash, and credit cards. Following a swift investigation, Bailey's involvement was established through store videotapes, rental records of a white car he had followed the victim in, and a matching fingerprint recovered at the crime scene.
Police apprehended Bailey in Atlanta with evidence, including the illegal possession of a firearm and the victim's credit cards on his person, mere hours after the crime was committed. "Defendant Bailey took the woman’s cell phone, driver’s license, health insurance cards, cash, debit card, and credit cards," detailed the District Attorney's Office of his desperate theft.
Without the possibility of parole, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Yolanda Parker-Smith handed down a sentence of 15 years to Bailey immediately after his guilty plea. The prosecution, led by Senior Assistant District Attorney Franklin Engram, was a coordinated effort with investigators and advocates dedicated to protecting elder persons and adults with disabilities.
