BATON ROUGE – A teenager is still recovering physically and mentally after being attacked over the weekend while working in a restaurant in Baton Rouge.
It happened at the Chilies on Constitution Avenue when the hostess refused to put a large party at a table, which is against the companies current COVID-19 policy.
Kelsy Wallace, 17, says she was working on Sunday when a large group of about 13 people came in to eat.
“My general manager tells us we don’t have to sit at table above 6 because of the coronavirus,” Wallace said.
She says she sat six of them at one table, but she could not sit at another table for the rest of the party because there were still more than six people.
Wallace says the group was increasingly overwhelmed, so she tried to get her manager a second time. That’s when Baton Rouge Police say they were attacked.
“She pushed me. And when she pushed me, all I knew was to push her back. I responded. That’s when she and her daughters, they all came. And they’re women. I’m 17. -year-old.They are like, 20, 30, and the woman who approached me looked like she was 40. So I stand there, they are on me, hit me.I stand there and try to hit them “Try to get it all off me. And the lady takes a wet floor sign and slaps it in my eye. And I had blood everywhere,” said Wallace.
With her face covered in blood, Wallace was eventually taken to the back of the restaurant. Police arrived after the suspected assailants left in separate cars.
Wallace says that after the attack, she had to go to the reporting room, where five stitches were placed just above her eye at her eyebrow.
“While I was lying on the bed, this was repeated in my head. I could not believe that. I could not believe that I was trying to work, and this happened to me,” said Wallace.
Along with the shock and embarrassment she felt associated with the pain in her eye, Wallace says she also has a large bald spot in the back of her head from one of the attackers who tore her hair.
Wallace still wonders why no one at the restaurant entrance at or after the brawl broke out.
“The managers let them out. How, how do they let them go like that? I mean, they could have the doors locked until the police came,” Wallace said.
Surveillance of the attack was obtained by police and a report was submitted by Wallace, who says she simply wants those responsible to be held accountable for their actions.
“I want them in jail. I do not think they should get away with this,” Wallace said, adding that she is still employed at the restaurant but has no plans to return.
Management at Chile’s on Constitution Avenue referred all comments to their company office that did not return Tuesday night with WBRZ.
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