‘TOO MUCH MAYO’ ROW ENDS IN DEATH

A man who complained there was too much mayonnaise on his sandwich opened fire at a sandwich shop in Atlanta, Georgia state, killing one employee and injuring another.

The shooting happened at around 6.30pm on Sunday at a Subway restaurant attached to a petrol station in downtown Atlanta. Police said the man argued with two female workers before shooting them.

“This was a very tragic situation that did not have to occur,” Atlanta police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jnr said.

He said a 36-year-old man believed to be the gunman was arrested near the restaurant on Sunday night after someone whom police were not identifying provided them with information.

Hampton said police were not immediately releasing the name of the suspect because of the continuing investigation.

The woman who died was 26, Hampton said. The other woman, 24, was shot in front of her five-year-old child and was in hospital in a critical condition. Hampton lamented the trauma that the child would have to deal with. “It frustrates me that we had an individual with a firearm who decided that was the answer to resolve a conflict over a sandwich,” he said.

“It just breaks my heart to know that someone has the audacity to point a weapon and shoot someone for as little as too much mayonnaise on a sandwich,” restaurant co-owner Willie Glenn said.

Glenn told a local television station that both women started working there this month and were considered “model employees”.

The city’s interim police chief Darin Schierbaum said arguments were the top cause of murders his force had investigated this year.