Hooters Shooting – A customer and a Hooters restaurant manager in Knoxville, Tennessee were critically wounded in a shooting early Saturday morning by an angry customer with missing front teeth who refused to pay his bill.
Police say the Hooters shooting suspect, described as a white male about six feet tall and 180 pounds, is missing his front teeth and his earlobes are stretched with large gauge dark jewlery.
The suspect was last seen wearing a black jacket with a skull and rhinestones on the back, and he was carrying a backpack.
Just before the Hooters shooting on Kingston Pike in West Knoxville took place, the manager had asked the irate man who was berating his Hooters waitress over his bar tab to leave the restaurant with the disputed bill unpaid.
The angry customer reportedly went outside, pulled a .40 caliber handgun from his backpack and fired multiple times into the building.
Police are still searching for the man with missing front teeth and well-stretched earlobes, who reportedly left on foot just after the 1:00 am shooting, according to Knoxville Police Lt. Kenny Miller.
An uninvolved customer who was leaving the restaurant and the manager inside were badly wounded.
Both men are reported to be in critical condition Saturday at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.
And that’s the latest news on the easily identifiable suspect in the Knoxville Hooters shooting.
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January 1st, 2008 at 8:22 am
“Police are still searching for the man with missing front teeth and well-stretched earlobes…”
Shouldn’t be too hard to find!
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
(AP) A man suspected of killing a customer and wounding a manager at a Hooters restaurant was shot and killed by police a day later, authorities said Monday.
David Michael Rudd, 25, was shot several times on Sunday night in a parking lot behind another restaurant after he repeatedly refused to put down two guns he was holding, police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said. No officers were injured.
Police had gone to the other restaurant after receiving a tip that Rudd had been seen there.
Police believe Rudd was the man who fired shots from a .40-caliber handgun into a Hooters restaurant Saturday morning after a dispute with a cashier over his bar tab, Lt. Kenny Miller said Sunday.