Atlanta Subway worker fatally shot by customer over bizarre reason

In a shocking incident, a Downtown Atlanta Subway worker was fatally shot by a customer who got mad over extra mayonnaise in his sandwich.

According to local media reports, an argument erupted between a Subway employee and a customer at a gas station on Northside Drive Southwest. The owner of the Subway says the reason for the shooting was very small.

“Believe it or not, it was about too much mayonnaise on his sandwich,” owner Willie Glenn said.

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In this argument, police said the customer shot two Subway employees, leaving one woman dead and another rushed to surgery.

“He decided to escalate the situation and from there – that’s when all hell broke loose,” Glenn said.

Glenn also said that one of the employee’s children was inside the store when the shooting incident took place.

“One of the young ladies who was kiled today, her son was in the store. She had a young son that had to witness all of this,” he said.

The manager on duty reportedly returned fire at the suspect, but the bullet did not hit him.

“I don’t know what the world is coming to especially with our youth. They seem to be so hot headed,” he said. “Everybody wants to carry a gun. Everybody wants to scare somebody wit ha gun. It’s scary out here.”

Reacting to the incident, Atlanta police interim Chief Darin Schierbaum told Channel 2 Action News: “What you are seeing behind me is the result of a tragedy. A senseless tragedy that we’ve seen numerous times throughout the year where an argument leads to gunfire, and now we have someone dead.”

The names of the two employees were not released.

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Schierbaum said Sunday that arguments are the leading cause of the homicides his department has investigated in 2022.

“We need individuals to talk out their disputes, walk away and do not pick up guns,” Schierbaum told the news station. “We can take down drug operations that breed violent crime, we can dismantle gang organizations that breed violent crime, we can stop robbery crews that breed violent crime. We cannot stop someone who is mad because there is too much mayonnaise on their sandwich.”