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DURHAM -- Two Duke University students were robbed at gunpoint in separate holdups on the university's Central Campus Monday night, but no one was injured, police said.
Two people were arrested and charged with the robberies, and police believe they were responsible for both holdups.
The first occurred about 11:03 p.m. on Alexander Avenue when a 21-year-old male Duke student was robbed of $80 and a cell phone by two men -- one with a gun and the other with a Leatherman tool, similar to a knife, according to Gloria Graham, assistant chief of the Duke University Police Department.
The robbers left on foot.
About 20 minutes later, another 21-year-old male Duke student was robbed in the 1900 block of Erwin Road about a block away, Graham said. Two men, believed by police to be the same ones, took $22 and a cell phone.
Two people were arrested soon after the robberies were reported.
"We already had them stopped by the time the second incident was reported to us," she said.
"The victims called us immediately, which isn't always the case," Graham said. "And the collaboration between us and Durham [police] is obviously what helped to apprehend the suspects so quickly."
Durham police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said Durham Officer Lauren E. Mazziotto was responding to the area to assist Monday night and spotted two males matching the description of the suspects on Anderson Street.
Dantae Terquan Anderson, 17, of Hart Street and Keith Dequan Jennings, 21, of Duke University Road, were arrested and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, Michael said. Anderson was also charged with possession of a weapon on educational property.
Both were placed in Durham County Jail under $500,000 bonds and remained jailed Tuesday.
