A close friend of the U.S. Postal Service worker who survived a brutal attack by the man accused of killing a 23-year-old woman along the Beltline is speaking out about her friend’s recovery.
On Tuesday, Melinda Gilbert told Channel 2’s Michael Seiden that her best friend, Monique Thomas, suffered a broken nose and a head injury that required staples after she was attacked outside a post office on Plasters Avenue.
“She’s not in a good place right now,” Gilbert said. “This side of her face, her eye is closed, all black and blue. She was black and blue all over.”…