HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — Workers at a popular wholesale food club are demanding to have a security guard in the store at all times after some customers attacked some workers over pizza.
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Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes was at the Sam’s Club in Henry County, where she talked to the victims of the attack.
Cierra Monroe works in the cafe at the Sam’s Club on Jonesboro Road. She said a mother and her two daughters came in two minutes before closing time on July 10 and wanted to order two whole pizzas.
When workers told them it was too late and couldn’t get a manager fast enough, Monroe says the mother, Andreana McKnight, came back into the kitchen and punched her in the face.
McKnight was arrested. Her 20-year-old daughter Victoria Wilson, who is pregnant, was taken to the hospital and there is now a warrant out for her arrest.
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Video shows a worker in a black shirt trying to defend herself as a woman swung at her. Other employees eventually broke up the fight.
“The mom, she gets upset and she goes from in front of the register, and she comes back into the kitchen, and when she comes into the kitchen, she swings on me,” Monroe said. “Once she swings on me, she punches me in my face and then her two daughters come from the front. I was not expecting that at all.”
Henry County police said they have another video that shows McKnight walking behind the counter and hitting the worker. Her daughters followed.
Monroe said she still has headaches and she still has bruises, scratches and a scar on her face. She said she doesn’t understand why Sam’s didn’t have a security guard working that day, especially when earlier that same week, she said another customer tried to attack a different worker.
“Prior to, we did have an altercation with another customer and he was escorted out,” she said. “But he was escorted out by the employees though. I just feel like we need to have security from the moment we open to the moment we close, every day, seven days a week.
A spokesperson for Sam’s Club wouldn’t say if they plan to have full-time security, but he did say staff safety is a priority and they’re working with Henry County police during the investigation.
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