Crime & Safety
Commuter Bus Driver Stabbed with Pen
A bus driver is stabbed in the face trying to calm a verbal altercation between passengers.
Cobb County Police Officer B.J. Daniel arrested Taniesha Nicole Twyne of Mableton on Monday on charges of aggravated assault and theft by conversion.
Twyne was riding a Cobb Community Transit bus and had borrowed another passenger’s cellphone but refused to return it, police said. A verbal altercation occurred between the two passengers.
Bus driver Damian Haney, 39, stopped the bus at 400 Ernest Barrett Pkwy., near Town Center mall. He attempted to calm the situation.
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Police said Twyne brandished a knife, and Haney and Twyne struggled. She dropped the knife, but then grabbed a pen from Haney's shirt pocket and stabbed him repeatedly in the face.
Haney was taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, where he was treated for his injuries and released.
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Police took Twyne to Kennestone, where she was treated for minor injuries. She was later taken to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.
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