HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A person purchasing meals at a Hallandale Beach 7-Eleven wasn’t glad after a woman in line chimed in on lighthearted banter between him and the shop’s cashier over the standard — or lack thereof — of the benefit retailer’s meals choices; the joking temper temporarily devolved right into a string of insults and a extraordinary beating.
That’s all in line with an arrest file got by means of Local 10 News on Thursday following the suspect’s arrest this week.
Authorities arrested Kirk Francis Russell, 65, of Lauderdale Lakes, on a legal battery rate Tuesday. He have been sought after in connection to the July 28, 2022 incident at the 7-Eleven at 722 Atlantic Shores Blvd.
According to the Hallandale Beach police arrest file, the chain of occasions started after Russell complained to the cashier that the hen he simply decided on used to be “hard.”
Officer Jerome Dolabaille wrote that the cashier informed him the hen wasn’t arduous and had simply got here out and jokingly mentioned he “was hurting her feelings,” main Russell to say sorry.
Police mentioned the cashier then informed him: “I don’t know about that beef patty though,” it sounds as if regarding every other scorching meals merchandise on be offering at the benefit retailer.
The woman whom police described because the eventual sufferer used to be status in line right through this alternate, the file states, and jokingly chimed in: “Oh, oh, you’re gonna have to take a chance with that meat patty.”
Dolabaille wrote that Russell became round, regarded at the woman and informed her “as fat as you are, you should know how everything tastes.”
Police mentioned the woman then retorted: “OK a–hole.”
“Why are you calling out my name?” police mentioned Russell requested.
They mentioned the woman responded: “You called me fat, I’m calling you a–hole. Even Steven.”
That prompt an escalating disagreement that might result in Russell telling the woman to attend whilst he went to drop off groceries at his mom’s space “and he would return to fight her,” the file states.
Police mentioned after Russell walked out, the woman paid for her pieces and walked to her automotive. That’s once they mentioned Russell, wielding a plastic milk crate, yelled “let’s fight.”
“Are you going to fight a girl?” police mentioned the woman requested, to which they mentioned Russell responded that he “didn’t care.”
That’s when police mentioned Russell started beating the woman with the crate, hitting her in her brow and, as she attempted to dam it, her proper wrist.
The woman started cursing in ache, the file states, “infuriat(ing)” Russell “even more.”
Police mentioned he hit her two times extra with the crate, hitting her in her left arm and, as she attempted to make use of her telephone, her proper hand, knocking the telephone out of her hand. After the thrashing ended, police mentioned Russell left the scene prior to officials arrived.
Authorities mentioned the woman sustained a fracture to her wrist, bruising on her arm and a lump on her brow.
Russell used to be now not indexed in Broward prison information as of Thursday afternoon.
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