Background: The Little Caesars restaurant on Patrick Street Plaza in Charleston, West Virginia (Google Maps). Inset: Jahtique Farmer (West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation).
A worker at a West Virginia Little Caesars is accused of shooting someone through the business”s drive-thru window — while on the clock.
Jahtique Farmer, 21, has been charged with malicious wounding, according to records from the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility. The violent incident occurred on Thursday evening.
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Farmer was speaking with another employee at the Little Caesars restaurant located on Patrick Street Plaza in Charleston when the two of them exited the store, according to court documents reviewed by local NBC affiliate WSAZ. Around this same time, a man was outside the store by the drive-thru window staring at Farmer, an act that upset him, the other employee said.
According to authorities, the fellow worker retrieved a gun Farmer had in his vehicle’s glove compartment and handed it to him. The two then went back into the store.
The man outside apparently remained by the drive-thru, as the suspect is alleged to have gone to the window and screamed at him while the man sat in his parked vehicle.
“You want to kill me,” Farmer reportedly said to the man before firing his gun three times through the window. The other man was hit in the bottom of his face and near his left rib cage, per WSAZ, but he was listed as being in stable condition after driving himself to the hospital.
Farmer was arrested the following day and booked into the South Central Regional Jail. It is unclear whether he and the victim knew each other.
Farmer is still listed as in the custody of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
