A 62-year-old man has been arrested in one of Atlanta’s two unrelated deadly stabbings this week, police announced Friday.
The separate incidents sent police flying across the city from a Buckhead luxury high-rise to a nightclub in Blandtown just hours apart early Wednesday. Two men died.
Details are limited in both cases, and neither victim has been publicly identified.
In the Blandtown case, Atlanta police said Tyrone Butler was involved in the killing at the Vivide Atlanta nightclub on Marietta Boulevard. Butler was taken into custody on Thanksgiving and booked into the Fulton County jail on charges of murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony.
Credit: Ben Hendren
Credit: Ben Hendren
Officers were called to the Marietta Boulevard club around 5 a.m. Wednesday. There, they found the unresponsive victim with a stab wound, police said in a statement. The man was rushed to a hospital, but did not survive.
It’s not clear if the incident took place inside the club or in the parking lot. No other details, including what prompted the attack, have been released.
A few hours earlier, around 12:30 a.m., police were called to The Huntley Luxury Apartments on Park Avenue. Officers found the victim lying in a hallway with a stab wound to the chest, officials said in a statement. He was already dead.
The apartments are just a short walk from Phipps Plaza and not far from Lenox Square.
It is not clear if the man was a resident of the building. Officials have not said what led to the violence.
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