Atlanta man sentenced to 5 life terms for series of violent robberies targeting Asian businesses
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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Surveillance videos released by various agencies of a series of violent robberies in 2017 targeting Asian businesses.
ATLANTA - An Atlanta man will be spending the rest of his life behind bars for a series of brutal armed robberies targeting Asian-owned and operated businesses in and around Atlanta back in 2017.
Dravion Sanchez Ware, now 25, was convicted on Aug. 2, 2019, on multiple charges, including conspiring to commit robberies and firing or brandishing a gun during the robberies.
Federal prosecutors said during the series of robberies, Ware would pistol-whip his defenseless victims who were not resisting him, sending at least one man to the hospital. He shot three women, one in the back at point-blank range as she was kneeling on the floor face down trembled on the floor, prosecutors said. All three women survived.