Atlanta police have identified 21-year-old Jahmare Brown as the suspect accused in a fatal stabbing along the Atlanta Beltline and two other random attacks in northeast Atlanta Thursday afternoon.
Police say Brown allegedly attacked a U.S. Postal Service employee with a rock at the Plasters Avenue post office before riding a bicycle to the Beltline, where he stabbed two people near the Montgomery Ferry Drive overpass and Flagler Avenue.
A 23-year-old woman, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office as Alyssa Paige, was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, where she later died. A second victim survived.
Brown was taken into custody around 5:25 p.m. near St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Peachtree Street in Midtown following an hours-long manhunt, according to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum.
He is facing charges including murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony.
Investigators believe the attacks were random and that Brown may have been experiencing a mental health crisis.
The USPS employee injured in the earlier attack is expected to recover.
The investigation remains ongoing.
