A shooting at a Subway restaurant in Atlanta has left one person dead and one person injured.
Fox 5 Atlanta reports that the incident happened on Sunday at around 6:30 p.m. local time. A dispute over a sandwich escalated after a customer was mad about the amount of mayonnaise that was on his sandwich, leading him to open fire on two women employees. The 26-year-old died and the 24-year-old was transported to a local hospital and is in critical condition.
“It was very senseless. Yes, too much mayo on a sandwich but an individual with a gun who thought that was the course of action to resolve about a sandwich,” Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said.
The women are reportedly sisters; the younger sister’s five-year-old son was also apparently at the Subway while his mom worked. According to a relative, the mother pushed her son under the counter so he wouldn’t get hit, and she was later shot twice. There was a third worker there—a manager who started shooting at the gunman but missed. A 36-year-old man has since been arrested, though his identity hasn’t been revealed.
“We don’t need people like that in society. If he’s willing to kill someone over mayonnaise then what else would he do,” owner Willie Glenn told the outlet. “It escalated in the store. He walked out the store and started shooting in the store and that’s when he hit one of my employees.”
He said the sisters had started working at the restaurant only three weeks before the shooting.
