Current:Home > StocksPolice say woman stabbed taxi driver on interstate before injuring two others at the Atlanta airport-Angel Dreamer Wealth Society D1 Reviews & Insights
Police say woman stabbed taxi driver on interstate before injuring two others at the Atlanta airport
View Date:2024-12-24 10:55:30
ATLANTA (AP) — A woman with a knife stabbed a taxi driver as he drove 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 without bond Thursday in the Clayton County Jail. Online court 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.
At the airport, someone told an Atlanta police officer that there was a woman with a knife. The officer used his radio to alert other officers and two of them spotted her. They began to follow her and one of them saw her “swipe her knife” at a Delta Air Lines employee, cutting her on the left side of her chest, the report says.
The officer fired his Taser but it hit the woman’s pants leg and didn’t make contact with her skin. The woman did not obey commands to drop the knife, and another officer fired his Taser at her, but the report says it’s not clear if its prongs hit the woman.
A police lieutenant sprayed his pepper spray at the woman, but then slipped on the spray on the ground. The woman bent down and stabbed him in the left leg, the report says. Another officer then tackled the woman, who was still armed with the knife.
Once the woman was in custody, an officer put a tourniquet on the police lieutenant’s leg and another applied a chest seal to the taxi driver’s chest to stop the bleeding. The police lieutenant, the taxi driver and the Delta employee were all taken to hospitals for treatment.
veryGood! (88964)
Related
- Brands Our Editors Are Thankful For in 2024
- Milan Kundera, who wrote 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' dies at 94
- Everything Our Shopping Editors Would Buy From Ulta With $100
- Human remains have been found in the area where actor Julian Sands disappeared
- Kentucky governor says investigators will determine what caused deadly Louisville factory explosion
- TikTok, facing scrutiny, launches critical new data security measures in Europe
- TikToker Emira D'Spain Documents Her Gender Confirmation Surgery
- The Plazacore Trend Will Have You Feeling Like Blair Waldorf IRL
- Judith Jamison, a dancer both eloquent and elegant, led Ailey troupe to success over two decades
- Soldiers find nearly 2 million fentanyl pills in Tijuana 1 day before Mexico's president claims fentanyl isn't made in the country
Ranking
- Jeep slashes 2025 Grand Cherokee prices
- From Barbie's origin story to the power of quitting, give these new podcasts a listen
- 2 killed in Chile airport shootout during attempted heist of over $32 million aboard plane from Miami
- Ukraine war crimes cases to open as International Criminal Court seeks 1st arrest warrants since Russia's invasion
- Congress is revisiting UFOs: Here's what's happened since last hearing on extraterrestrials
- Aleeza Ben Shalom on matchmaking and breaking up with A.I.
- How Hailey Bieber Is Creating Her Own Rules in the Beauty Industry
- 'Theater Camp' lovingly lampoons theater kids in grades 5! 6! 7! 8!
Recommendation
-
Oil Industry Asks Trump to Repeal Major Climate Policies
-
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading, viewing and listening
-
24-Hour Flash Deal: Make Cooking Easier and Save $40 on Ninja Speedi Rapid Cooker and Air Fryer
-
Today Only, You Can Score This Bestselling $378 Coach Bag for $95
-
Summer I Turned Pretty's Gavin Casalegno Marries Girlfriend Cheyanne Casalegno
-
Haley Lu Richardson Jokes About Being “Honorary” Jonas Brothers Wife After Starring in Music Video
-
Blake Shelton Reveals Why He's Leaving The Voice After 23 Seasons
-
Wife of Mexico kidnapping survivor says he's just glad to be alive