An enraged customer at a Michigan Chipotle shot an employee when a fight over guacamole escalated to bloodshed.
The suspect, 32, can be seen flashing the firearm as the employee, 21, grabbed him by the sweatshirt in an attempt to stop him from leaving the store, video of the wild brawl shows.
“I was just eating a bowl and I heard shouting. And then I looked over, they’re arguing. One of the workers went to the back, I don’t know why, and then when he was in the back, the customer walked around the counter, tried to grab his food and put it in a bag,” witness Thomas Huber told Fox 2 Detroit.
“Then the employee came back, and they started fighting, and then we heard a gunshot and just ran out as quick as we could.”
An enraged customer at a Michigan Chipotle shot an employee when a fight over guacamole escalated to bloodshed in a Michigan Chipotle. FOX 2 Detroit
The employee sustained a gunshot to the leg and was rushed to a local hospital in stable condition, Southfield police said.
The suspect — an unnamed Detroit man — fled the scene, but didn’t seem to be in any rush.
“He took his time getting out… probably 30 seconds after (the shot was fired),” said Micahel Beales, who filmed the bizarre altercation.
“I was in my car and I saw him just walk out to his car, close the door, and just drive off – he didn’t speed off or anything, it was weird to see.”
The suspect — an unnamed Detroit man — pulled out a gun during the fight and fled the scene after the shooting. FOX 2 DetroitThe shooting occurred at a Chipotle in Southfield, Michigan. FOX 2 Detroit
The gunman was tracked down at a nearby location shortly after the incident. It is not clear what charges he may face for the shooting.
Chipotle did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A Wisconsin bartender and her “inseparable” husband were shot and killed inside a sports bar last week and authorities are still seeking the “coward” behind the mysterious double homicide.
Sports Page Barr worker Gina Weingart, 37, and Emerson Weingart, 33, were killed in the fatal gunfire that rang out shortly after midnight last Thursday, Elkhorn police said.
Multiple agencies rushed to the scene after getting a call of shots fired at the business.
When law enforcement officials arrived, they found the couple — who just got married this past summer — with fatal gunshot wounds but a killer was nowhere to be found.
The owner of the business, Jordan Barr, said a “coward” came into the bar and started shooting in a Facebook post.
“Their lives were just beginning, and I believe I speak for our entire Sports Page family by saying we are absolutely devastated by what happened,” Barr wrote. “It is a despicable act of violence that has shaken all of us to our core.”
Gina Weingart and her husband Emerson Weingart were fatally shot after midnight last Thursday, Elkhorn police said. KCBDThe owner of the bar said a “coward” came into the business and started shooting in a Facebook post. KCBD
No motive has been revealed so far and police have not released a description of a suspect.
The married couple were longtime regulars at the bar and grew close to staff and patrons. Gina was eventually offered a part-time gig at the establishment, Barr wrote.
Both victims grew up in the Badger State and got married in June, according to their obituaries.
The couple just got married this past summer before the unknown shooter took their lives. KCBD
Emerson was an avid fisherman and big-time Green Bay Packers fan while Gina loved to sing and dance, the online tributes state.
“Gina and Emerson started dating in 2020 and became inseparable,” their loved ones wrote. “Gina and Emerson Weingart were recently married in June 2023. Two of the most beautiful, kindhearted and fun-loving couple you could ever know.”
Elkhorn is a city of roughly 10,000 residents and is about 40 miles from Milwaukee.
Police said the unknown gunman is on the run, and no motive for the shooting has been revealed so far. KCBD
Emerson’s father, Jeff Weingart, hopes someone comes forward to provide police with information that could lead to an arrest.
“It’s gut-wrenching,” he told WIS over the weekend. “Somebody saw them. Somebody saw them. I don’t care, you don’t pull something like that off.
“I can’t believe that it was just her and him in the bar. So somebody saw them, and somebody had to give a description of them, and somebody had to see the car when he drove away, and they better find him.”
A Las Vegas father of seven was killed on his way to work when he was carjacked by a heavily armed man who was being chased by cops for gunning down his own mother.
Gerardo “Jerry” Lopez-Martinez, 39, had just left home at about 3:45 a.m. Wednesday when he was stopped by gunman Justin Davidson, 36, who’d already killed his mom and swiped a squad car after firing at responding cops, according to authorities.
“The guy just walked up shot my husband and threw him out of the vehicle,” Lopez-Martinez’s wife of 13 years, Karen Lopez, told KVVU.
The killer then “ran him over and took our vehicle,” she said.
Four officers saw Davidson shoot the dad and push him out of the vehicle, running him over as he fled despite being hit multiple times, police said.
The gunman — who’d also carjacked another vehicle in the terrifying spree — was later found dead in Lopez-Martinez’s stolen vehicle, police said.
Gerardo “Jerry” Lopez-Martinez, a father of seven from Las Vegas, was killed by the ambush-ready gunman. Courtesy Karen Lopez
He was wearing camouflage clothing and a tactical vest and investigators found a notebook “with a diagram of a potential ambush situation indicating he was prepared for an armed confrontation with law enforcement,” police said.
“At two residences associated with Davidson, investigators found tactical equipment, prepper supplies, numerous military manuals, and documents regarding police responses to mass casualty incidents.”
Lopez said her husband was excited to get to work as a driver for a medical linen supply company as he had recently been promoted. He likely pulled over because he saw police pursuing the killer.
She collapsed when told what had happened to the man who “always made me feel loved.”
Gerardo “Jerry” Lopez-Martinez, his wife, Karen, and their seven children. GoFundMe
“My stepdad had to catch me because I just collapsed in the middle of the road kind of passed out because I couldn’t handle it, it didn’t seem real,” she said.
The loss is also too much for their seven adopted kids, especially their eldest, an 11-year-old son.
“Last night he kept texting my husband’s phone and he said, ‘I know daddy isn’t going to answer but I hope daddy can still read the messages and know I love him,’” the widow told KVVU.
“We were supposed to grow old together and raise them together.”
The deadly rampage began after Davidson fired a rifle behind his parents’ home, police said.
Justin Davidson AP
“As his parents approached the wash area, Davidson began shooting toward them, killing his mother,” cops said. “His father retreated to his vehicle and Davidson shot at the fleeing truck.”
When police arrived, the gunman began firing at them from a hidden location, shot out the windows of a patrol car and took off in it, according to investigators.
Davidson soon bailed from the police car and carjacked a truck full of people at gunpoint without harming them, police said.
Karen Lopez said her husband had just left for work as a driver for a medical linen supply company when he was killed. KVVU-TV
He drove the truck to a gas station and tried to carjack a motorist who was pumping gas, fleeing when cops caught up and opened fire.
He then cornered Lopez-Martinez and shot him dead with a long rifle, police said.
Gerardo “Jerry” Lopez-Martinez and his wife, Karen, in an undated photo. APThe couple adopted six of their seven children. Courtesy Karen Lopez
Among the weapons used by Davidson was an assault rifle with an erased serial number stolen from a Las Vegas gun show, authorities said.
Clark County Assistant Sheriff Yasenia Yatomi provided photos of evidence collected by investigators that suggests he could have been planning for a large-scale attack.
Two of the assault rifles police have recovered from the gunman. AP
The evidence included a notebook with a hand-drawn diagram “of a potential ambush situation,” a stockpile of items that could be used to build firearm silencers and explosive devices, and documents outlining how police respond “to mass casualty incidents.”
“We do not know if the suspect was attempting to build an improvised explosive device,” Yatomi told reporters. “With the materials we found in his homes, we do not know why the suspect started shooting.”
Clark County Assistant Sheriff Yasenia Yatomi. AP
Davidson, who was wearing camouflage clothing and a tactical vest during the rampage, had a lengthy criminal history dating to 2009, including arrests on drug and weapons charges, she said.
Yatomi said investigators searched the desert area where Davidson started firing off shots.
They found loaded magazines of various calibers in multiple locations, but authorities don’t yet know if the ammo was left behind when the police chase began or if he had been hiding them there for some time.
Police have more locations to search as part of the probe, but for now, Yatomi said: “We’ve painted a picture and I’ve showed you evidence of a story that should be very disturbing.”
A GoFundMe page for the family has raised more than $388,000 as of Tuesday morning.
A San Antonio man allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend after she told him she did not want to have his baby, according to police.
Adam Byrd, 23, has been charged with murder for gunning down his girlfriend, Jade Alyssa Alvarez, 22, just days after he robbed a store at gunpoint, according to local reports, which cited an arrest affidavit.
Alvarez’s dead body was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Capitol Avenue around 6:30 a.m. on April 6, according to KSAT.
A woman who had been with Alvarez the night before the shooting told police the victim had been dating Byrd.
He had been talking to Alvarez on the woman’s phone and asked for her to be dropped off on Capitol Avenue, where she was found dead hours later, KENS5 reported.
Byrd at the time had an active Bexar County arrest warrant for two counts of aggravated robbery from the stickup earlier in the month.
After being taken into custody this week and questioned about the robbery, Byrd admitted to police that he had killed Alvarez over an argument about how he wanted to have a child with her, but she did not.
Adam Byrd has been accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend after she said she didn’t want to have a baby with him.
He also admitted to using the same gun to kill her as the one he used during the robbery, according to the affidavit.
Regarding “Two slays in 2 days,” (April 12), New York’s obscene no-bail “reforms” and the irresponsible judges who “enforce” them are directly responsible for two more murders in the city.
Messiah Nantwi was arrested in February 2021 for allegedly shooting at police and initially held without bail.
Over the prosecution’s objections, his bail was reduced to $300,000, which his family met by posting a $30,000 bond.
Last weekend, video shows that Nantwi allegedly shot and killed a man in a Harlem smoke shop after reportedly killing another on a Manhattan street.
No matter what Assemblyman Carl Heastie and Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins say, this is blood on their hands.
Marc E. Kasowitz
Manhattan
Shelter squabble
Thank you for once again reporting about the failed policies of the de Blasio administration that have been carried forward by Mayor Eric Adams (“Storm from the shelters,” April 9).
No residential New York City neighborhood should be inundated by homeless.
While “safe havens” can work on a smaller scale, it is an inappropriate model for New York City.
With the uptick in crime committed by homeless mentally ill, it’s not a good idea to place folks in a stimulating environment in what is a cultural and economic engine in the city.
This is not a NIMBY issue. It’s common sense.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of acres in the state where former state schools and hospitals were once situated.
Create a mini-community on these unused acres with social and health services available.
One can use renovated buildings, tiny houses, trailers or modular units for that purpose.
Please start thinking differently, or we will continue on this long, downward and dangerous road.
Laura Logue Rood
Manhattan
Stepmom horror
The evil stepmom who placed two children in a freezing garage was sentenced to 25 to life (“Rot, evil stepmom,” April 12).
One of the boys, an autistic 8-year-old, died.
How any human being could do that is just beyond understanding.
The judge remarked at the sentencing that it’s too bad there was no garage at the prison.
Their argument as to when life begins — whether it’s after 15 weeks, 12 weeks or at conception — is based on faith rather than scientific fact.
Their claim that they are concerned with the right to life of the unborn raises the question: Where is their concern for the health and well-being of the already born?
The argument over the “abortion pill” proves that point.
The “pill” has been shown to be safe and effective for decades.
They are, in effect, attempting to impose their religious beliefs on other Americans.
Addressing each and every anti-abortion argument when raised is a waste of time and energy.
Irving Gelb
North Bergen, NJ
Stern’s turn
Howard Stern is a washed-up, leftist big-mouth (“Stern spanks Kid,” April 12).
It seems like during COVID, he transitioned from kind of an edgy guy to a typical, full-blown leftist and paranoid millionaire hypocrite.
He is insulated by his obscene wealth and is clueless about the decline of this country.
Raymond Fontana
Westbrook, Conn.
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Police have confirmed “multiple casulties” after an active shooting broke out in Louisville, Kentucky Monday morning.
The Louisville Metro Police Department reported there was “active aggressor” in the city’s downtown area — near Slugger Field — shortly before 9 am.
“We are confirming reports of an active aggressor in the 300 block of East Main. Please stay out of the area. There are multiple casualties,” police said.
A man was fatally shot inside a Harlem smoke shop Sunday after the gunman blasted the victim in the head, according to harrowing footage of the cold-blooded killing.
The 36-year-old victim was found bleeding from bullet wounds inside the smoke shop at 304 Lenox Ave. around 8 p.m., police said. The shooting is the latest rash of violence tied to the budding industry in the Big Apple.
The unnamed victim suffered a gunshot wound to the head and back, according to law enforcement sources.
He was taken to NYC Health and Hospitals/Harlem where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
The suspect and the 36-year-old were involved in a dispute moments before the shooting, cops said.
Video of the encounter, obtained by The Post, shows the gunman and victim talking for several seconds as several other men stand around. The victim appears to start leaving, but as he’s walking out, the suspect pulled a gun out of his pocket and fired — striking the victim in the head, according to the footage.
The shooter was seen casually pulling out his gun and shooting the man in the head. The gunman was seen shooting the man in the head as he appeared to be exiting the smoke shop.
The victim fell to the ground, but was still moving and appeared to try to get himself up before the shooter callously fired another round into the man’s back, the video shows.
The suspect is seen casually leaving the store following the violent attack. Officers said he fled on foot wearing dark-colored clothing.
No arrests have been made.
The shooter was seen casually leaving the smoke shop after killing the man.G.N.Miller/NYPost
The Harlem store wasn’t the only smoke shop where employees needed to call police Sunday.
A smoke shop in Brooklyn was robbed by a masked suspect who displayed an unknown object and swiped cash, authorities said.
The robber was wearing all black including a mask, the NYPD said. No injuries were reported.
Robberies at NYC’s stoner-friendly storefronts continue to climb, a top cop said at a March 20 City Council public safety hearing.
The gunman has not yet been identified and no arrests have been made.G.N.Miller/NYPost Law enforcement personnel inside the smoke shop investigating the shooting. G.N.Miller/NYPost
Robberies targeting storefronts that sell pot paraphernalia – and in many cases unregulated cannabis – have increased 10% this year compared to 2022, Police Chief of Patrol John Chell said.
Days before the council hearing, a worker was shot and killed during a botched smoke shop robbery in Queens.
LAKE CITY, S.C. — Photos of a peewee football player flashed across a slideshow. The image of a smiling young man adorned memorial T-shirts. But the body of the American gunned down three weeks agoby the Gulf cartel in Mexico was kept shielded from funeral-goers.
Over 100 people gathered Saturday to remember Shaeed Woodard at the first funeral service for the two people killed in the attack in the border town of Matamoros. The sendoff came at the end of a month that should have featured birthday celebrations for the man slain just days before he turned 34 during a tightknit group’s road trip to help Woodard’s cousin get cosmetic surgery.
Instead, friends and family shuffled across the maroon carpeting of Good News Deliverance Temple on an overcast afternoon in Lake City, South Carolina. The 6,000-person town was thrust into the international spotlight in early March when Woodard and three friends with ties to the area were attacked over 1,400 miles away.
The cartel’s Scorpions faction apologized in a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement official.
At the funeral, spiritual leaders rejected vengeful thinking.
“We are asking you to give us a clean heart. Because no cartel, no demon, no evil spirit, no hellmaker, no one… We won’t seek retribution,” Minister Dearest Price said. “But, Lord, we ask you to deliver us from evil.”
There, Nisheeka Simmons read a letter poem for her cousin whose “untimely departure” brought everyone together “in solidarity.” She recalled his sweet nature, strength of mind, and the safety others felt around him.
A handout featured another poem suggesting Woodard “wanted to celebrate this birthday far different from before” with music, laughter and jokes “out on the open road.”
“If any of you knew the outcome, you would have cautioned me to stay,” the poem continued. “But those plans were of my Master and could not be delayed.”
The day contained mixed emotions.
Hands clapped and voices rang out during powerful medleys of songs.AP
Pastor Hugh Samuels shared words of consolation for the family shocked by the sudden loss of Woodard and heartened by the return of his cousin, McGee, who survived the brutal kidnappings. A reading from the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes reminded attendees that there is “a time to weep and a time to laugh” and “a time to mourn and a time to dance.”
Hands clapped and voices rang out during powerful medleys of songs.
Samuels thanked God for bringing people together in Woodard’s death, which he said should remind people of the future’s uncertainty.
“Brother Shaeed and three others went to Mexico. But the Son of Man called Brother Shaeed down,” Samuels said. “We are not promised to walk out of this place today. You don’t know when God is going to call your name.”
Shaeed Woodard was among two who died in the attack.Facebook / Shaeed Woodard
State Cemetery marked the final resting place for Woodard, whose body had been handed over to U.S. authorities on March 9 after crossing the international bridge to Brownsville, Texas.
Since then, the Woodards have received an outpouring of support, said Colin Ram, an attorney for the family. Local officials’ sympathy cards were read at the funeral. A nearby activist network promised to raise money. Ram pledged to guide them through the injustice’s fallout.
“Make no mistake, what happened in Mexico was an act of terrorism that affected the lives of four Americans, of four South Carolinians,” Ram told The Associated Press.
Each day brings more proof that New York’s Raise the Age law has been a disaster not just for the city and state, but for the young people the law supposedly protects.
A 17-year-old boy was shot four times Tuesday near an Upper West Side high school.
Later that day — in what police say may have been retaliation — an East Harlem shooting saw another kid hit by bullets near another school, Harlem Renaissance HS.
These blood-stained tragedies are simply the latest fruit of poisonous progressive policies. Gangs seduce ever more teens into lives of violence, knowing full well that their age serves a shield for real consequences.
Meanwhile, the age at which kids pick up a gun for the first time has plummeted from 16-17 to 12-13.
Let that sink in.
Because lefty Dems codified their moral posturing on policing into state law, kids are arming themselves as they hit puberty.
Under Raise the Age, teen shooters routinely get handed cookies and juice by our chronically hapless Family Court (where juvenile cases are almost certain to be tried), then sent on their merry way.
Of course teen violence is soaring: It’s not even a surprise that alleged perp Coulilbaly was walking free when he should’ve been behind bars.
Raise the Age had a noble enough aim: Don’t condemn kids who make stupid mistakes to overly harsh prison terms.
But in practice it’s been an unmitigated disaster, creating deadly situations for the very groups it was supposed to protect.
Yes, there are other factors. New York’s COVID policies disrupted social life for two years.
The city’s traditional public schools typically fail to deliver for the neediest kids. And family structures and mores have been breaking down for decades.
A Florida man is accused of fatally shooting his own teenage daughter, her mother and two others before a surviving child inside the home called for help Wednesday morning, according to authorities.
Deputies rushed to the crime scene in Canaveral Groves after one of two unharmed children called a relative for help, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said during a news conference.
Deputies found the bodies of 15-year-old Kiarra Terwilliger and her mother Constance Terwilliger, 35, who used to be in a relationship with accused killer Domenico Gigante, around 2 a.m.
Other victims were identified as Glenda Terwilliger, 63, and 36-year-old Michael Andrew Watson.
Gigante, 36, who Ivey called an “extremely violent individual,” was charged with four counts of first-degree murder. He was arrested hours after the shooting and is being held without bail.
Suspected murderer, Domenico Gigante, is escorted to a patrol car following his arrest on Wednesday.Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Florida: Facebook Gigante is placed into the vehicle following his arrest for killing four earlier in the day on March 1, 2023.Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Florida: Facebook
The surviving children are 9 and 6, the sheriff said. One of the children contacted a relative, who then raced to the scene and called 911, Ivey said in an earlier press conference.
A motive for the deadly gunfire was not revealed by authorities.
“Folks, I’m gonna tell you this is an extremely violent individual with an extremely violent past,” Ivey said of Gigante.
He was previously arrested for domestic violence and battery in 2005, multiple counts of cruelty to animals in 2008 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault in 2012.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey speaks during an update on the quadruple murder in Canaveral Groves on Wednesday.Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Florida: Facebook
Ivey said Gigante once killed a dog by breaking his head on the table and snapping his neck and also stabbed another dog.
“That’s the level of violence this individual possesses,” he said.
“My thoughts and prayers are with this family,” Ivey continued. “And we as a community mourn their loss.”
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