A supermarket cashier has been shot dead and three others injured after an exchange of words with a cashier for politely asking her to “cover her face” with a mask.
Supermarket cashier shot dead after “telling a customer to put on a mask”
A dispute over a face mask has left one woman dead and three people injured at a U.S. supermarket.
A cashier at the supermarket in Georgia was shot and killed for asking a customer to properly cover her face, according to local reports.
The horror occurred Monday afternoon following a brief argument between a Big Bear supermarket worker and a suspect after she properly asked him to “cover his face well with his facemask” according to authorities.
“There was a confrontation, an argument […] in reference to the use of masks, at which time the subject pulled out a handgun and shot the cashier,” DeKalb County Sheriff Melody Maddox said in a statement.
The customer, who went by the name Victor Lee Tucker, JR, 30, left the store without making the purchase.
He then immediately returned inside and according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, “He went directly to the cashier, pulled out his gun and fired.”
The victim, who has not yet been identified, was later pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital, the GBI said in a news release.
A reserve officer who was part-time security at the supermarket exchanged some gunfire with the suspect as he tried to flee out the front door and both ended up wounded.
Maddox said the officer was hit twice by gunfire but fortunately was wearing a bulletproof vest.
Both he and the unidentified officer are in stable condition. The GBI said a second teller was grazed by one of the bullets at the scene.
