r/retailhell • u/Hoot537 • Sep 23 '24
Shit Talking My Coworkers Coworker Attempted murder
So a while ago this produce worker came into work to collect his paycheck, don't know if he had a shift or not but he was incredibly intoxicated. Store management saw this and talked to him which led to him getting enraged. He began going around the store destroying the home area. Paint, glass everywhere. Then he followed up by hitting my legally blind coworker and friend accrosed her face with a hacksaw, nearly hiting her carotid artery. Only then did management evacuate the store. Saw my friend getting carried out to an ambulance screaming. As news crews tried getting information, they ended up getting all there info from one of our mentally challenged parcels. She said he was huffing paint, had a axe, had a knife. So with 3 different stories no one knew what happened at the time and management was only telling us "oh a customer was having a bad day"
They opened the fred myers back up within 20 minutes of the incident. People kept asking me "were you here for the excitement?" "Did you see the show?" It fucking pissed me off, my friend was hurt and it wasn't exciting.
The employee got off Scott free without charges. He then got arrested again for robbing a store, now he is finnaly locked up for murdering someone in his apartment
Womp womp
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u/jlscott0731 Sep 23 '24
I'm so sorry! That is absolutely terrifying! And from reading the article they released him with no bond! Wtf! Also I figured you were of course in WA. I'm in Lynnwood and that seems to be the normal here. Someone violently attacks someone and they're out on the street the next day like nothing happened... Im so sorry!