A fast food employee was charged with second-degree murder Monday after striking a 67-year-old man in Arizona.
Antoine Kendrick, 35, was working at a Wendy’s in Prescott Valley in late July when the elderly man made a complaint about his order, which started a squabble. Restaurant surveillance footage shows the man eating his frosty when Kendrick came out from behind the counter and struck him in the head. The man fell and hit his head on the floor and was knocked unconscious.
The elderly man was flown to a local hospital in critical condition where he succumbed to his injuries.
“Oh, wow that was a pretty hard hit. That was a Mike Tyson hit,” one customer said. “The customer didn’t touch him, so he had no right to touch the customer, period, end of story. I just think that’s horrible and wish it didn’t happen. It puts a bad light on our entire society.”
Kendrick was taken into custody and was originally facing charges of aggravated assault, but due to the assault victim’s death, those charges have been updated to second-degree murder, according to the outlet.
