Woman stabbed taxi driver on interstate before injuring two others at Atlanta airport, police say

Travelers watch through a window as a plane takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta.
Travelers watch as a plane takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)

A woman with a knife stabbed a taxi driver as he was driving down an interstate and then slashed an airline employee and a police lieutenant at the Atlanta airport before she was tackled by another officer, according to a police report.

The 44-year-old woman was arrested and charged with four counts of aggravated assault. She was being held in the Clayton County Jail and was denied bond during an initial court appearance Thursday, according to online court records. The records did not list an attorney who could comment on the charges.

The taxi driver told police he picked the woman up at a MARTA train station Wednesday afternoon and she asked to be taken to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. As he drove down Interstate 285, not far from the airport, the woman stabbed him in the upper chest, near his right shoulder. Then she grabbed his phone and threw it out the window, he told police.