Texas bartender charged for serving gunman who left bar, killed 8 people

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Lindsey Glass, 27, was arrested last week and charged with a misdemeanour violation of the state's "sale to certain persons" law, which bars the sale of alcohol to a "habitual drunkard or an intoxicated or insane person."

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According to Plano police, Glass continued to serve alcohol to Spencer Hight that September 2017 day even after it was clear he had had too much to drink. A medical examiner later determined that Hight's blood alcohol level was four times the state's legal limit.

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Glass knew Spencer Hight and had earlier texted another bartender as Hight sat at the bar, investigators say. "Spencer has a big knife on the bar and is spinning it and just asked for his tab and said I have to go do some dirty work ... Psychoooooooo," according to the text, which was included in a report last year by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. At one point, Hight also displayed a handgun and a bar worker escorted him to his car to place the weapons inside before he could return to the bar, police search warrants revealed. Glass' attorney, Scott Palmer, said Tuesday that her arrest "is not in the interest of justice" and criticized Plano police for going after a person who tried to stop violence from occurring. He said Glass tried to persuade Hight not to drive that night and expressed concerns about his behaviour to a supervisor. After Hight left the bar, Glass and another employee drove to Meredith Hight's nearby home out of concern that her estranged husband was headed there, Palmer said. When she spotted Spencer Hight's car outside of the home, Glass called 911. The call was made before the shooting began, he said.

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Lindsey Glass, 27, was arrested last week and charged with a misdemeanour violation of the state's "sale to certain persons" law, which bars the sale of alcohol to a "habitual drunkard or an intoxicated or insane person."

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