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Singer Usher hit for $1 million plus in Lenox Road car break-in

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

R&B superstar Usher Raymond IV lost more than $1 million in jewelry, clothing and other items when someone broke into his SUV a few days before Christmas.

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Associated Press Singer Usher lost more than $1 million in jewelry, clothing, electronics, luggage and other items when his SUV was broken into.

Items stolen from Usher's SUV

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Atlanta police spokesman Eric Schwartz told the AJC on Tuesday that police have made no arrests in the Dec. 14 heist outside the AT&T store at 3431 Lenox Road, across from Lenox Square mall.

According to an Atlanta police report on the incident, Elijah Shaw, the Atlanta singer's bodyguard, told officers that he and Usher were returning from the airport when they stopped at the AT&T store.

Shaw told police that while they were inside the store, someone broke into the 2007 GMC Yukon and took two laptops, two garment bags, a laptop bag, a jewelry bag, four cameras and assorted clothing from the vehicle.

According to the report, the missing items included five watches, three necklaces, two rings and six bracelets valued at $1 million as well as a Louis Vuitton garment bag worth $3,000 and $50,000 in assorted clothing. Total value of items taken: $1,065,700.

The investigating officer determined that "the suspects popped a small hole on the bottom right corner of the door handle and entered the vehicle."

A witness told police that she saw a burgundy Chevrolet Impala with tinted windows pull up behind the Yukon and a black male in his early 20s wearing black pants, a white t-shirt, a black jacket and a black skull cap enter the SUV.

The man took items from the Yukon and loaded them into the Impala before getting into the passenger's seat of the Chevrolet, the witness told police

The witness said she was unable to see a tag number as the Impala pulled away.