Supervisor stabbed multiple times at Atlanta postal facility

By Mike Morris

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A postal worker was arrested early Monday after allegedly attacking and stabbing a supervisor at a mail processing facility in northwest Atlanta.

The incident happened about midnight Sunday at the Bulk Mail Center in the 1800 block of James Jackson Parkway.

Atlanta police Major John Dalton said the supervisor, Joseph Jose, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital after being cut on the face  and stabbed multiple times in the back.

Atlanta police spokesman Otis Redmond said Monday that Jose, 55, of Kennesaw, was alert, conscious and breathing when taken to the hospital.

The suspect, Claudius Mapp, 42, of Covington, was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated assault.

According to a police incident report released Monday afternoon, Jose was talking to another employee when Mapp attacked him from behind with a knife and a screwdriver.  Jose was cut on the left eye, right eye, left ear and left hand, and had eight puncture wounds to the back, according to the report.

Police have not determined a motive for the stabbing.

Mapp, who claimed to be a law student,  has refused to talk to investigators, Dalton said.