A 17-year-old Chilean hostess said she was attacked by a group of diners after trying to follow coronavirus-related seating rules at the coronavirus-related seating restaurant on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La, according to a WBRZ report ABC2.
Louisiana High School student Kelsy Wallace told WBRZ that her general manager instructed employees not to seat more than six people at a table. On Sunday, a group of at least 13 women came in to eat, the report said. Wallace said she sat six of the dinners at one table, and then asked the remaining women to sit at two separate tables.
She said the group started yelling so she tried to get her manager, and that’s when one of the women shot her. ‘And when she pushed me, I only knew how to push her back. I responded. Then … they all came. And they are adult women. I am 17 years old. They are like, 20, 30, and the woman who approached me looked like she was 40. ”
Wallace said that was when one of the group grabbed a sign from the wet floor and hit it in Wallace’s eye. “I had blood running everywhere,” Wallace told the local television news report.
Wallace was taken to the reporting room, where she received five pieces just above her one eye. She also had a large bald spot in the back of her head where one of the attackers tore her hair out.
Police arrived after the suspected attackers left. “The investigation into this incident remains ongoing,” a police spokesman 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.
In addition to physical pain, she said she was shocked and embarrassed. She wonders why no one in the restaurant tried to help her. She also told WBRZ she was shocked that the restaurant’s managers allowed her attackers to “run out.”
Her family said the teen has no plans to return to work at Chile’s, saying “she is afraid to return to work to continue with the cost of her seniors’ activities and college expenses.” That’s why her family has set up a GoFundMe page.
It states that Kelsy is an honors student and is enrolled in both Broadmoor Senior High School and Career & Technical Education Center. She has aspirations to become a medical doctor.
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