Friend details attack on USPS worker before deadly Beltline stabbing

ATLANTA — A close friend of the U.S. Postal Service worker who survived a brutal attack by the man accused of killing a 23-year-old woman along the Beltline is speaking out about her friend’s recovery.

On Tuesday, Melinda Gilbert told Channel 2’s Michael Seiden that her best friend, Monique Thomas, suffered a broken nose and a head injury that required staples after she was attacked outside a post office on Plasters Avenue.

“She’s not in a good place right now,” Gilbert said. “This side of her face, her eye is closed, all black and blue. She was black and blue all over.”

Atlanta police say the attack happened shortly before investigators say 21-year-old Jahmare Brown fatally stabbed 23-year-old Alyssa Paige along the Beltline.

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