Horrifying new details have emerged regarding last week’s murder of a great-grandmother on an Atlanta train by a wicked thug.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, an elderly woman was brutally murdered on a MARTA train near the Oakland City Station in Atlanta on Saturday shortly after 12 pm.
A suspect was promptly arrested following the murder, and normal rail operations were temporarily suspended.
FOX 5 notes that emergency medical workers desperately tried to save the female victim at the scene, but she succumbed to her injuries. MARTA police stated that several bystanders witnessed the horrific murder.
MARTA Police Chief Scott Kreher announced on Sunday that 25-year-old John Elijah Matthews was in the Fulton County Jail as a suspect in the murder. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office identified the victim as 66-year-old Margaret Swan of Atlanta.
Swan had five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Swan’s daughter said she was a traveler on the MARTA train.
Now, the full, sickening nature of the crime has emerged. 11 Alive News obtained warrants that show CCTV video footage capturing the moments Matthews stabbed Swan to death and leading up to her murder.
He walked over to her and sat next to her on the train. He proceeded to take out a knife and slash her throat.
But Matthews was far from done.
From 11 Alive News:
At 11:21 on Saturday, the video showed Swan sitting alone on the train car. Just before 11:25, Matthews is seen on board, walking to the side of the train where Swan was sitting, standing near her alone.
Matthews, 19 seconds later, “is seen walking up to (Swan) and standing just to her right.” Several seconds later, he took out a knife, opened it, and cut the victim in the throat.
The warrants then describe Swan screaming and trying to get up from her seat, as Matthews held her and committed the stabbing.
He was then seen on the CCTV cameras “throwing (Swan) to the floor and standing near her until the train arrived at the Oakland City Station,” less than two minutes later.
The warrants also show that Matthews got out with the murder weapon still in his hand as officers rushed to the scene to save Swan.
According to the warrants, Swan was stabbed up to 20 times.
11 Alive News notes that searches of court and jail records across metro Atlanta jurisdictions did not immediately indicate whether Matthews has any prior criminal history in the area.
He has been charged with murder in the sickening slaying.
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