‘Senseless act’: 66-year-old fatally stabbed while riding public train, police say

Atlanta News First ^ | June 1, 2026

[TheDon]

ATLANTA (Atlanta News First/Gray News) — A medical examiner identified the 66-year-old Atlanta woman who was fatally stabbed on a train over the weekend.

Margaret Swan was stabbed to death while on a public MARTA train on Saturday, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office.

MARTA police identified the suspect as 25-year-old John Elijah Matthews. He is facing murder charges for Saturday’s stabbing.

According to an arrest affidavit, police were met at the scene by a large crowd, who told officers to look for a Black man in an orange shirt who stabbed a woman at the Oakland City MARTA station.

Police said they found Matthews almost immediately near the north end of the platform with a knife nearby.

Matthews is accused of stabbing Swan 18 to 20 times, according to the affidavit.

Swan did not know her attacker, according to her family.

[DIRTYSECRET]

**Black on black crime.**

Here’s your answer. Set up a court system for blacks. They settle their own disputes. Just don’t expose them to outside communities.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Subway murders are all part of AOC’s Injun Squaw New Amerika and King HaHakeem Potatoehead’s Wakanda, Black Panther boys tribe.

[Sarah Barracuda]

and not a peep from the commie media, doesnt fit the narrative..black perp, black victim, they just cover their eyes and pretend it didnt happen

[Midwesterner53]

Black on black killing. Even the black Mayor has been totally quiet. No power or money to be gained from exploiting it by so called black leaders.