Ga. man pulls butcher knife at Zaxby’s when he can’t make own drink
There was a report of a person “disorderly with a weapon” at the Zaxby’s restaurant on Riverside Drive in downtown Macon on June 17. The suspect, a guy wearing a long-sleeve white shirt and tan pants, was said to have whipped out a butcher knife. The man, a patron, apparently got mad, a Bibb County sheriff’s report said, because he wanted to prepare his own drink from the drink dispensers in the establishment’s dining room. Because of COVID-19 precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic, drinks were only being given out by employees behind the ordering counter. Informed that he could not make his own drink, the patron “started cursing,” the sheriff’s report said. The man walked away from the counter and appeared about to be on his way out the door when, according to a manager there, the man pulled the black-handled knife from his pants pocket and “waved it in the air.” The man was gone when the cops arrived.
Dispatches: On the afternoon of June 21, police were called to check on a reported fight at Rutland Place apartments on Houston Road in south Bibb. A man there told a sheriff’s deputy that another guy had been at the pool drinking and then gone into an apartment. He was said to be angry because he thought the man who reported the fight had taken his belongings from the pool, an incident report explained. The angry man was said to have punched the other person in the face a couple of times. The man who got punched said he didn’t want to press charges. He said he thinks the other guy was mad because, as the report put it, “they got a history against each other.” . . . On July 10, there was a “disturbance” call at the Murphy Express gas mart on Gray Highway in east Macon. A worker there, who was injured in the fray but not seriously hurt, said an unknown woman had been, as a sheriff’s report noted, “making strange statements.” The report added that “according to the complainant, the female then grabbed (the complainant) and hit her while holding what appeared to be a hatchet.” The alleged attacker took off in gold Lexus and got away.
This story was originally published August 3, 2020 at 6:00 AM.