Man arrested in fatal stabbing at Vivide nightclub
A 62-year-old man has been arrested in one of Atlanta’s two unrelated deadly stabbings this week, police announced Friday.
The separate incidents sent police flying across the city from a Buckhead luxury high-rise to a nightclub in Blandtown just hours apart early Wednesday. Two men died. They were later identified as Kendall Gaddis, 27, and Evan C. Holmes, 42.
Details are limited in both cases.
In the Blandtown case, Atlanta police said Tyrone Butler was involved in Holmes’ killing at the Vivide Atlanta nightclub on Marietta Boulevard. Butler was taken into custody on Thanksgiving and booked into the Fulton County Jail on charges of murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony.
Officers were called to the Marietta Boulevard club around 5 a.m. Wednesday. There, they found Holmes unresponsive with a stab wound, police said in a statement. He was rushed to a hospital but did not survive.
It was not clear if the incident took place inside the club or in the parking lot. No other details, including what prompted the attack, have been released.
A few hours earlier, around 12:30 a.m., police were called to The Huntley Luxury Apartments on Park Avenue. Officers found Gaddis lying in a hallway with a stab wound to the chest, officials said in a statement. He was already dead.
The apartments are just a short walk from Phipps Plaza and not far from Lenox Square.
It was not clear if the man was a resident of the building. Officials have not said what led to the violence.
