Overview
- The Department of Justice on June 8 charged 42-year-old Anthony Tyrone Gresham with violence on a mass transportation system, possession of ammunition as a convicted felon, and related counts for a shooting on a Midtown MARTA train.
- Federal authorities say the June 5 attack involved three shots fired that struck a 17-year-old student in the left hand and left leg and that the teen has undergone surgeries and is receiving recovery support.
- Prosecutors say Gresham has a long felony record that bars him from possessing guns, he fled the station after the shooting, and law enforcement captured him two days later in Douglasville after a multi‑agency manhunt.
- The Federal Transit Administration has opened a formal review of MARTA and has given the agency until June 18 to provide crime data, security plans and spending records, a step that could lead to conditions on federal funding.
- This case is the second federal transit charge in a week following a May 30 fatal MARTA stabbing, a pattern that is sharpening oversight of MARTA, raising rider safety concerns and likely increasing visible security during major upcoming events.