Atlanta Business Owner Stabbed Multiple Times, Claims Assailant Followed Her Home After Work

A local business owner said she may have died when a man stabbed her multiple times in her driveway.

Jeanette Sellers believes her attacker targeted her after she left her business, thinking she had money.

She spoke exclusively with Channel 2’s Tom Jones.

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“This is all so traumatic,” she told him.

Sellers shed tears just thinking about how she could have lost her life in a brutal attack.

“Luckily my daughter came out at the right time. I’m not sure what could have happened,” she said.

She said a man ran up to her in her driveway on May 14, near Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard and Peeples Street, and began stabbing her.

She had stab wounds all over one side of her body.

“I had eight on my back and six on my arm,” she said.

The vendors own Wadada Healthy Market and Juice Bar on Ralph David Abernathy in the West End. She lives a few steps from her business.

The sellers returned home that evening and were walking down his driveway. She said surveillance video shows the attacker running after her.

He started stabbing her.

“I was screaming at the top of my lungs,” she said.

Her daughter came out, but Sellers says the attacker continued to rummage through her purse. She said her son then got out and chased him until he got into a getaway car and drove off.

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The sellers were rushed to hospital. She said surveillance video shows her attacker waiting near her home, leading her to believe she was targeted.

That’s why she’s sending this message to area business owners.

“I would definitely say we need to be more aware and more alert,” she said.

Sellers is grateful to be alive and grateful that his children came to his aid.

“I’m so happy they heard me,” she said.

Jones contacted police for an update on their investigation.

He is still waiting for their response,

Business owners and residents in this community have set up a meal train for Sellers since she cannot work at this time.

Visit https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/8rllv2 if you would like to help.

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