A 7-Eleven clerk was arrested after allegedly throwing a beer can and a broom at a customer during an argument over a sandwich.
An officer responded to 7-Eleven, located at 11670 U.S. Hwy. 301, Oxford, regarding an unknown disturbance around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. The incident arose from a verbal altercation between an employee, later identified as 40-year-old Donald McNaught Thomson, and a customer.
The argument started over a sandwich and the process of heating it up. Thomson escalated the situation by throwing a 25-ounc Chelada beer can toward the customer’s face. He then came out from behind the register, grabbed a broom and threw it at the customer while chasing him out of the store, the report said.
Surveillance footage showed the customer leave the 7-Eleven for about seven seconds before going back in. He approached Thomson and pointed his fingers very closely toward his chest. Thomson looked upset and threw a beer can at him before getting a broom to throw at him, too, the report said…