Safety digital camera footage caught an offended buyer ruthlessly beating a Wokano employee — all due to some meals.
The worker Kevin Oxlaj, who’s labored at this location for 2 years, stated the ache from that night time continues to be very current.
“My entire chest, my arms, my legs, my entire again of my neck to the purpose the place … I am unable to actually transfer that a lot,” he stated. “I am unable to flip.”
Oxlaj stated it began when a buyer bought upset over his order taking too lengthy. The person then yelled at an worker who was pregnant. After telling the shopper to settle down, Oxlaj stated the person started to repeatedly punch him till one other buyer pulled him away.
“He did not need to let me go in anyway,” Oxlaj stated. “I felt like he needed to only drag me out of the restaurant and simply end me off exterior.”
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Oxlaj’s mother, Isabel Hernandez, stated she additionally felt the stress and horror of that night time.
“If he had taken him exterior, I do not know what would’ve occurred,” she stated in Spanish.
Hernandez stated the person returned to the restaurant a number of instances that day, in search of her son and asking the place he was.
“I do not really feel effectively,” she stated in Spanish. “My son goes to return to work, proper? What if he is ready? What if he is watching? I am very fearful, and I plead to the authorities: arrest him to really feel safer or present a restraining order so he cannot get near my son.”
If the alleged attacker stays free, the household stated he might do the identical factor to others.
“I truthfully do need to press assault costs as a result of what he did to me, it isn’t honest,” Oxlaj stated. “I hope he finally ends up behind bars. I hope he would not do it to anybody else as a result of what he did to me should not have occurred — should not have been achieved. He should not have took his anger out only for ordering meals.”
Since submitting the police report on Monday, the household stated they haven’t heard again from the police. The Los Angeles Police Division stated the incident continues to be below investigation.
