Police Searching for Second Suspect in Home Invasion

Atlanta Police are continuing to search for a female suspect involved in an armed robbery and aggravated assault of an 85-year-old woman in her apartment on Legacy Drive just west of the Atlanta University Center last week.

According to police and a report by Fox-5 Atlanta reporter Kaitlyn Pratt, Julia Phillips said there was a knock at her door last Saturday. That's when she said two strangers forced their way inside.

They covered her face with duct tape, she said, and ransacked the apartment and took off with two large screen TVs. Family members say Phillips is disabled and wears a bracelet with an alert button but she was unable to activate it during the attack.

Before calling the police, an upstairs neighbor witnessed two suspects removing the televisions from the victim's apartment and heard the woman calling for help from her apartment. 

According to Atlanta Police spokeswoman Kim Jones, the female suspect is identified as Mechannon Shante Banard, 21. She is 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes. She is known to frequent 4469 Glenwood Rd. in Decatur.

The other suspect,, 22-year-old Reginald Seaborn, was arrested last Tuesday  in connection with the attack. He is charged with aggravated assault, armed robbery and burglary, and is being held in the Fulton County Jail.

Anyone with information on Banard's whereabouts should contact Atlanta police or Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.