A Florida Chick-fil-A worker is being praised for his heroic actions when he stopped a person from allegedly carjacking a girl and her child.
The worker, Mykel Gordon, was working at a location within the Fort Walton Seaside space Wednesday afternoon when the girl began screaming for assist, in keeping with statements from Chick-fil-A and the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The lady was getting out of her automobile within the restaurant’s parking zone when the suspect, William Department, approached her “wielding a stick and demanding her keys,” authorities stated.
Department then grabbed the keys from the girl’s waistband, opened her automobile door and received inside, authorities stated.
“When the sufferer started screaming for assist an worker at Chick-fil-A ran to intervene,” the sheriff’s workplace wrote on Fb.
Department punched Gordon within the face however didn’t severely injure him. Cellphone video taken from a witness confirmed Gordon and Department wrestling on the bottom earlier than different individuals run over. Gordon then holds Department down.
Police stated Gordon informed deputies that Department had been concerned in one other incident shortly earlier than the carjacking.
Department, 43, of DeFuniak Springs, was charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery. It is not clear if he has obtained an lawyer who can converse on his behalf.
The Fort Walton Seaside Chick-fil-A known as Gordon a “hero” for serving to the girl. “At Chick-fil-A our mission is to ‘Serve’ and immediately Mykel took it additional……to ‘Save,'” the restaurant wrote on Fb.
This is not the primary time Gordon has lent a serving to hand to a buyer. In 2018, he helped two teenage ladies after a truck failed to barter a flip and fell onto the ladies’ automobile, the Northwest Florida Each day Information reported.
“God resonates there. It’s a miracle in some ways how this occurred. However simply to have individuals like this that step ahead and make one thing occur, I do know not everyone is gonna do one thing like that,” the daddy of one of many ladies informed the newspaper.
