After order error, woman pulls gun at Terrytown Church’s Chicken: JPSO

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A New Orleans woman attacked an employee at a Terrytown Church’s Chicken and brandished a gun after she claims the restaurant fouled up her order, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.

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“Apparently, her chicken order was wrong,” Rivarde said. Hammond returned to Church’s on Tuesday to ask for a refund, but she did not bring her receipt, authorities said. The restaurant declined to refund her money.

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Hammond confronted the employee and hit her, sparking a fight inside the restaurant, authorities said. Staffers broke up the melee and put Hammond out of the store, locking the door behind her.

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When Church’s staffers refused to open the locked door for Hammond, she is accused of grabbing a blue-colored pistol from her car, Rivarde said. Hammond returned to the door, gun in hand, and began beating on the glass. “She threatened to shoot up the place,” Rivarde said.

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The frightened employees still refused to open the door for Hammond, who went to the drive-thru lane and began banging on the window, authorities said. She broke the window and removed it from the frame. Hammond was still at the restaurant, gun in hand, when a Sheriff’s Office deputy arrived. Hammond was arrested and booked with five counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, simple battery and simple criminal damage to property, Rivarde said. She was being held without bond Wednesday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna.

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