A 66-year-old woman was killed in a stabbing attack on board a MARTA train on Saturday in Atlanta. A 25-year-old man is charged with murder.
ATLANTA — The unsettling stabbing attack on a 66-year-old woman on board a MARTA train over the weekend happened suddenly and without provocation, according to arrest warrants, as she was stabbed 18-20 times.
According to warrants, 25-year-old suspect John Elijah Matthews began the attack by cutting the throat of the victim, identified as Margaret Swan, just seconds after he walked up next to where she was sitting on a train approaching the
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