AUGUSTA, Ga. - "I don't feel safe anymore," said Melissa Hayes.

Hayes has lived in her same south Augusta neighborhood since March. She says she always felt safe walking everywhere. Her comfort was shattered early Saturday morning after being robbed at gunpoint.

Hayes was walking home with her husband after getting off work at the Lucky Trip Gas Station on Lumpkin Road. The couple says they were walking down their street, four houses down from their home, and two robbers jumped out from the trees, pulled handguns on them and demanded all of their money.

Hayes says it could have been prevented if the street lights in her neighborhood were on and working.

"That's what the city needs to keep up on and do something about, because had the street lights been working down there, we would have at least been able to see what was coming to us. We were in the total dark," said Christopher Hogg, Hayes’ husband.

"He looked at my husband and said, “Ya’ll turn around.” As we turned around we heard them cock their guns. Then my neighbor started their car, they heard it, then said “lets go”," said Hayes.

Hayes says she and her husband are so shaken after the robbery, they're moving to a safer place to live.

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