Posted on 06/01/2026 9:10:23 AM PDT by Libloather
The Atlanta train passenger who was slaughtered in a shocking daylight weekend attack was reportedly stabbed nearly two dozen times in what cops are calling a horrific random assault.
John Elijah Matthews, 25, was caught on chilling surveillance footage boarding a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s (MARTA) Saturday morning and hovering over 66-year-old Margaret Swan before allegedly pulling out a knife and slitting her throat, according to a warrant obtained by 11Alive.
The unwitting passenger, sitting alone, began screaming and trying to escape as the violent brute allegedly held her down and stabbed her 18 to 20 times in an unprovoked attack.
Matthews — reportedly homeless — then hurled Swan to the floor and stood over her as the train reached Oakland City Station, the warrant showed.
The accused assailant fled the train while allegedly still brandishing a knife, as the victim lay motionless inside the rail car in a large pool of blood.
MARTA authorities quickly arrested Matthews on the train platform after horrified riders described what he was wearing, the warrant said.
First responders attempted to save the gutted woman before she died.
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It’s coming down to vigilante justice here folks. Our judicial system has failed.
There is a reason why neither Marietta nor Alpharetta will allow MARTA to build a station in their cities. They know exactly what that MARTA station would bring.
Yep as long as the perp is black or an illegal they will ALWAYS be protected by the left
Ha! That's a good one, too.
How many arrests and how many mental admissions did he have?
Some people do not deserve to live among decent citizens.
That poor woman...rest in peace.
Both apply.
In 1959, the Clutter family was murdered in Kansas, Truman Capote later wrote the book “In Cold Blood”. I was a young child in the country, near a small village. The country was stunned with these murders, in the news for weeks and weeks afterwards. It prompted my dad to put locks on our doors, and more outdoor security lights. Families were on guard for months.
Today, the murders wouldn’t even be picked up by the Associated Press.
“I’m surprised that the victim appears to be black.”
You know what she was? She was an OLD LADY. And these cowardly scum are always attacking women and the elderly.
They’re not crazy, they are evil cowards. And there is NO ARGUMENT in favor of keeping ANY of them alive.
Another animal attacks a defenseless women on a train. The 25 year old monster who most likely will get a go fund me from soros types. He will be plead as incompetent so he can take a six month vacation on the peoples dime then be set free to do it again by a foreign born woke judge.
Arm your selves my friends, CCW, get pepper ball gun, pepper spray, bear
spray, carry a pocket knife, a belt knife, be ready and when one of
these barely human monsters try to attack you or your family or friends;
let them be met by determination, steel or a hail of bullets fired in
self defense.
We are a hands breath away from riot and destruction. The left has
turned courts in to revolving doors, the woke are trying to de-fund the
police and many department budgets have been reduced, fire safety has
been left to rot and ruin slashed to the bone. You must be
hyperventilate in the protection of your self and your family.
The lame stream media ignores it and they memory holed it but we must
remember, we must band together for our own protection and stand again
the tyranny of the the vicious left.
LOL
Why the hell do we put up with this crap, if you have a witness skip the trial and fast track to a brick wall and shoot.
Homeless is a terrible slur.
Lots of people have been homeless and are perfectly decent people.
Just call him what he was....batshit krazy man slaughters woman on train.
“ 3 shots and no cot needed.”
Three shots and a plot.
Cut him in half.
Meanwhile ...
Nice to see they have their priorities straight, eh?
And from 2 months ago...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/1sgo1pc/psa_marta_seems_to_effectively_be_a_homeless/
What could go wrong.
No, why was no one, NOONE, on that train armed?
For same reason the dead of the Oct7 atrocity in Israel died with no guns — so that gov’mt can bully citizens.
On the train one guy with a pistol would have ended this.
According to FBI stats (before BeijingBiden deliberately corrupted them) over 300,000 times per year a good guy with a gun stops violence.
Take out all of his organs to give to others, while he’s alive.
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