Teen Charged in Toccoa With Armed Robbery After Allegedly Threatening to Kill Victim’s Child

By Ethan Jordan, WNEG Radio, Toccoa

A Columbus, GA teen is behind bars in Stephens County charged with robbing a woman after he allegedly threatened at gunpoint to kill her child.

According to Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize, the incident occurred on November 12, after a Toccoa Police Officer was approached outside the Police Department by a female who said she had been robbed at gunpoint on Skyview Lane.

The victim said she had picked up two male acquaintances and given them a ride to Wal-Mart and then an address on Skyview Lane.

As the men exited the vehicle, she told police one of them, identified as 18-year old Dequondre Biggers, went around to the driver’s side, put a gun to the her neck and demanded all her money.

When she refused, the suspect aimed the gun at her child in the back seat.

The victim immediately gave the suspect $636.00, before the he ran off towards Ruby Street.

Mize says Investigators were able to interview the victim of the armed robbery and obtain the names of the suspects.

Investigators and Officers located some of the cash that had been stolen along with the weapon involved, a Glock 19 9mm pistol.

On November 13, Officers located Biggers, who goes by “Quan” at 260 Stephens Drive.

Biggers was charged with Armed Robbery, 2 counts of aggravated assault, cruelty to children, and carrying a weapon during the commission of a crime.

He remains in the Stephens County Detention Center.