A Wendy’s customer allegedly stabbed dead an employee who asked him to stop moving around tables inside the fast food diner.
Kashka Otto, 22, and another worker at a Wendy’s in Nānākuli, Honolulu, on Sunday morning told Reynaldo Cheney, 60, to stop moving furniture around, police said.
The two workers escorted Cheney out of the restaurant, but Cheney called Otto a derogatory name and a fight broke out in the parking lot, KHNL reported.
Otto punched Cheney, who responded by stabbing the young worker, according to police.
Both employees were rushed to a hospital, where Otto died. His co-worker survived.
‘One male is deceased and a second male was seriously injured,’ wrote the Honolulu Police Department on Facebook.
Cheney was arrested at the scene on suspicion of first-degree attempted murder, second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder, according to a arrest report.
The suspect already had an outstanding warrant for illegal camping.
Otto graduated from Waianae High School.
His Wendy’s co-worker, Sophie Tabag, said: ‘He would always give a smile when taking people’s orders. He was really great. He was a great person.’
A fellow volleyball team member at the high school, Kevin Wong, said that Otto ‘was this big guy, but he had a sensitive soul’.
The injured Wendy’s employee’s identity was not immediately disclosed.
Cheney is in police custody. Neighbors reported that he lived in a tent close to the beach for years.
It is the latest death at a Wendy’s in the US.
In July 2022, a customer at a Wendy’s restaurant in Arizona who complained about his order was sucker punched by an employee and died 10 days later.
And in a much heavier clash in June 2020, a 27-year-old father who fell asleep at a Wendy’s drive-thru in Atlanta, Georgia, was shot dead by police officers. Protesters calling for justice over Rayshard Brooks’ death burned down the Wendy’s restaurant and the police chief resigned.
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