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Former, current Duke students robbed at gunpoint near campus after basketball game

Three people were robbed at gunpoint near Duke University's campus on Saturday night, officials said on Monday.

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Julian Grace
, WRAL anchor/reporter
DURHAM, N.C. — Three people were robbed at gunpoint near Duke University's campus on Saturday night, officials said on Monday.

The three people were getting out of their car on Saturday night after traveling to the basketball game at the Dean E. Smith Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when four men approached them and forced them to go inside their residence at gunpoint.

"As my friend opens the door, it was two guys that jumped us," said one victim, who walked WRAL anchor/reporter Julian Grace through what happened.

Two more of her friends were inside the apartment complex along McQueen Drive when the group of men forced themselves inside, authorities said.

The group of four men stole bank cards, laptops, phones and other items from the residence. They also stole one of the victims' cars.

"They put all of us in different places in the apartment and told us to stay there for 30 minute and don't come out," she said.

The group of men grabbed their phones and made each person erase all their tracking apps and passwords, the victim said.

“I’m trying to keep busy. The more you're not, you keep thinking about it," she told WRAL News.

No one was injured in the robbery, Durham police said. The three victims were former and current students at Duke University.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Durham Police Department at 919-683-1200.

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