On the afternoon of April 11, 2023, a coordinated attack at the Ashby MARTA station in Atlanta left 20-year-old Charles Madison Perkins dead. Charles, known to friends and family as Perk, was in the concourse area around 4:30 p.m. when surveillance footage shows a suspect approach, a physical struggle, a gunshot, and Charles thrown to the ground. He was found face down and pronounced dead at the scene, and the East-West transit line was temporarily halted.

Security video captured suspects fleeing on foot and then entering a waiting vehicle. That footage led to the arrest later in April of 21-year-old Davis Edmond of Ellenwood, who warrants say acted as the getaway driver but was not the shooter. In November 2023 a second arrest was made when Resean Lee Martin was booked into Fulton County Jail on accusations that he knowingly and intentionally caused Charles’s death. Charles attended Westlake High School; his funeral was held April 20, 2023, and he was buried at Westview Cemetery.

Anyone who was at the Ashby station that afternoon or who has information about the attack is asked to come forward.