Atlanta Man Tommy Collins Indicted In New Year's Eve Teen Stabbing
ATLANTA -- The man accused of fatally stabbing a 14-year-old boy at the Five Points MARTA station shortly into New Year’s Day was indicted by a grand jury Friday.
Tommy Collins, 36, was indicted on charges of murder and three counts of aggravated assault in the stabbing death of 14-year-old Reuban Hand.
MARTA police said a fight just outside the fare gates on the Peachtree Street side of the station led to the teenager’s killing.
Deunya Taylor, Reuban Hand’s mother, said a man angry about a missing cellphone suddenly approached her son and stabbed him in the neck.
Police did not give a motive for the slaying, only saying that the incident remains under investigation.
Collins was taken into custody shortly after the incident.
The case will now be assigned to a Superior Court judge and scheduled for trial.
"Everybody loved him. You know, he touched everybody," Taylor said. "I really just still don’t believe that my baby’s gone."
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