One Dead After Shooting At A Subway Over Mayonnaise, According To Police
One Subway employee is dead and another is injured after a shooting at Subway sandwich restaurant in Southwest Atlanta, Georgia. A customer reportedly shot two employees because he was upset about too much mayonnaise on his sandwich, according to police.
According to WSB-TV, the Atlanta Police Department said they arrived at the Subway at approximately 6:30 p.m. on June 26. A 26-year-old was fatally shot and has been identified as Brittany Macon by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office. She had only been working at the Subway for three weeks.
Jada Statum, 24, was shot and is now recovering in critical condition, WSB-TV reports. She was shot in front of her 5-year-old, who she pushed under the counter as the gunman fired. A co-owner of the Subway fired back at the gunman but missed.
Al Bailey, the store’s other co-owner, told WSB-TV, “Everybody packing. What sense does it make? They want to dummy this society down.”
Police say a 36-year-old man has since been arrested due to a tip from the public but his name has not been released. Reports suggest the man has been seen in the store before. Police are currently investigating and said in a statement, “There was something wrong with the sandwich that made him so upset that he decided to take his anger out on the two employees here.”
Interim Chief Of Police Darin Schierbaum added, “An argument leads to someone picking up a weapon and firing that gun, leaving someone dead or someone critically injured.”
Schierbaum continued, “We need individuals to talk out their disputes, walk away and do not pick up guns. We can take down drug operations that breed violent crime, we can dismantle gang organizations that breed violent crime, we can stop robbery crews that breed violent crime, we cannot stop someone who is mad because there is too much mayonnaise on their sandwich.”
The co-owners are considering whether they will keep the Subway open after the shooting.
