Police arrest man accused of stabbing 2 people at MARTA station, health clinic

ATLANTA — Atlanta police have arrested a man accused of stabbing two people at a MARTA station Tuesday. Police are investigating if the same man is connected to a triple stabbing Monday.

Tuesday’s stabbings happened at the King Memorial Station off Decatur Street and a nearby health clinic around 9 a.m. Atlanta police said one of the victims is in critical condition.

Police arrested 32-year-old Ahmad Rasheed at the scene.

The 60-year-old victim arrived at the Mercy Care Clinic for an appointment just before 9 a.m. Channel 2′s Tom Regan spoke with patients and clinic workers who were already inside and saw the attack.

″The nurses inside the building took care of him till the paramedics arrived," one said.

MARTA police said a man attacked several people on a train and stabbed one of them. Police fanned out to search and after a short foot chase, officers arrested Rasheed.

The clinic remained on lockdown for a couple of hours and staff moved waiting room patients away from the front of the building. The staff hope the victim will pull through

“He didn’t look good at all."

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Police said he matched the description of the man on Monday who randomly attacked three men at two different spots just before noon on Monday.

Two men, in two separate attacks, told officers they were approached in a parking lot at MLK Drive near Hamilton E. Holmes Boulevard.

“One was approached from the rear and vice-versa. That they did not know this person. When they looked and saw him he turned around,” Capt. Jeff Cantin with the Atlanta Police Department said.

That’s when police said the attacker stabbed them — one in the throat. Minutes later just down the street, he stabbed another man. All three victims are stable.

Atlanta police searching for man who randomly stabbed 3 people Witnesses told Channel 2′s Tom Jones that they see so much violence in that area, they’ve almost become immune to it.

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