Federal charges have been filed against Decatur resident John Elijah Matthews on Tuesday after he allegedly killed a 66-year-old woman aboard a MARTA train last weekend.
Matthews, 25, faces a charge of committing an act of violence using a dangerous weapon with the intent to cause death on a mass transportation system after a May 30 attack on a fellow passenger, 66-year-old Margaret Swan.
Swan was on a MARTA train traveling northbound from the Lakewood station to the Oakland City station when she encountered the defendant, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia.
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