{"id":102364,"date":"2025-12-28T04:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102364\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:55:07","slug":"texas-man-recounts-confrontation-with-a-stranger-faced-with-a-rifle-in-chick-fil-a-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102364\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man recounts confrontation with a stranger, faced with a rifle in Chick-fil-a parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A confrontation, racist statements, and an assault rifle were captured on video in East Texas last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth McGaha said he pulled up to the drive-through window at Chick-fil-A restaurant in Henderson, where he was told the order he and his girlfriend placed wasn&#8217;t ready.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guy told us, &#8216;it&#8217;s going to be a minute on your shakes; can you pull up and we will bring them right out?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGaha said he started looking for a place to drive and wait when the car behind him in line was trying to leave. &#8220;So in order for them to leave, I had to pull up and get out of the way. So I just pulled up and pulled into a parking spot, not knowing it was a handicap parking spot.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>McGaha said he had just gotten his order when he had a stranger walk up to his vehicle and reach inside his vehicle. The stranger also made racist statements, which McGaha says was because he was parked in a handicapped space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like he was calling me &#8216;boy&#8217;, I &#8216;shouldn&#8217;t be here. Get your A-word over there&#8217;,&#8221; described McGaha. &#8220;The next thing I know, I felt an arm like a brush coming across my head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGaha was able to record some of the disturbing racially charged comments before the unidentified man went back to his truck and grabbed an assault rifle out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really thought me and my girlfriend were dead because it was just up close range.&#8221; McGaha said that was the end of the confrontation. <\/p>\n<p>He went to Henderson Police to file a report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The father of three insists that he didn&#8217;t do anything to deserve threatening words and actions by the man he wants to see criminally charged.<\/p>\n<p>The Henderson Police Department tells CBS News Texas they are investigating the report made by McGaha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A confrontation, racist statements, and an assault rifle were captured on video in East Texas last week.\u00a0 Kenneth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-102364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}