ATLANTA — The suspect in the shooting at the Midtown Metro Atlanta Regional Transportation Agency station was arrested June 7, MARTA PD announced.
Anthony Tyrone Gresham was taken into custody in Douglas County on Lee Road after a multi-jurisdictional effort.
The man who was shot aboard a MARTA train June 5 got a gunshot wound to his left arm and leg. He’s expected to be OK.
Channel 2 Action News has reported on the recent uptick in violence on MARTA properties has caused the agency to increase police visibility as the federal government investigates.
Officials say Anthony Tyrone Gresham was taken into custody in Douglas County on Lee Road.
That is where authorities tell us he was spotted by the FBI.
When Gresham was approached by a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy, investigators say the 42-year-old took off running into the woods.
The FBI AMMO Task Force, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Douglasville PD and Haralson County Sheriff’s Office all set up a perimeter.
Georgia State Patrol Task Force members called in air support from the aviation unit, and the Douglas Sheriff’s Office sent in K-9 units.
MARTA PD said Gresham was flushed out of the woods back onto the road. The aviation unit spotted him, and he was apprehended.
Tiffany Salas told Channel 2’s Cory James she is breathing a sigh of relief, after learning the man accused of the shooting on board a MARTA train Friday is in jail.
“I’m happy that they caught him,” she said.
Some riders though are still concerned since this is at least the third attack in recent weeks.
“Just two weeks ago it happened to somebody else,” rider Flash Bryant said.
There should be some sort of security what is brought on the trains what is not," rider Jake Smith said.
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