A Florida Taco Bell run ended in gunfire after authorities said a worker apparently angry over customers putting soda in a water cup opened fire.<\/p>\n
The incident unfolded around lunchtime Monday at the Taco Bell on 45th Street in West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, the victims had entered and asked employee D’Mari Patterson for a cup of water.<\/p>\n
Patterson provided the cup but then confronted them about filling it with soda, the report said.<\/p>\n
The argument escalated and another Taco Bell employee separated Patterson from the victims.<\/p>\n
A patron started recording cellphone video which captured Patterson yelling before the sound of a firearm being racked is heard followed by a single gunshot, the report said.<\/p>\n
One victim ran outside and Patterson followed and fired an additional round in their direction, which missed the victim but struck a restaurant window, the report said.<\/p>\n
Patterson went back inside and the three victims left and went to a hospital for treatment for minor injuries, the report said.<\/p>\n
The report said Patterson called 911 and said a customer jumped behind the register so he “pulled his weapon out and shot.”<\/p>\n
Patterson also told an officer he believed the victims had a gun and said they could “get jiggy,” but surveillance video didn’t support Patterson’s self-defense claims, the report said.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old Patterson was booked into jail on three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida Taco Bell run ended in gunfire after authorities said a worker apparently angry over customers putting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,4556],"class_list":["post-252126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-west-palm-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}