A woman is dead and a transit system is under scrutiny — and the timing could not be worse for Atlanta.
A fatal stabbing on a MARTA train Saturday morning at the Oakland City station is the second violent attack on the system in six days. MARTA police say officers patrolling the station responded around noon to reports of a woman stabbed on a train, arrested the suspect on the spot, and tried to save her life. She died at the scene. MARTA spokesperson Stephany Fisher called it “a senseless act of violence.”
Six days earlier, a man was stabbed multiple times at the Georgia State station — wounds to his chest, arm, back, and knee. Security footage showed that attack began as a fistfight before one person pulled a knife. He survived…