Workers Attack Coworkers in Incidents Across Country

Corpus Christie, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A recently fired restaurant employee was left fighting for his life after a former coworker attacked him.

According to police in Corpus Christie, Texas, a 35-year-old Popeyes employee was found near his former place of employment. Preliminary investigations showed that he had been fired earlier in the day and had come back to the restaurant several times throughout the day to harass and threaten the employees. Police said they were called to the restaurant several times, but the victim would run away before they arrived.

At some point, police said, the victim showed up and assaulted one of his former coworkers in the parking lot of the restaurant. The ex-co-worker, 53-year-old Margarito Cisneros, then stabbed the 35-year-old.

Cisneros was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and taken to the city detention center. Officials said the incident is still under investigation.

The attack was one of a number of attacks by coworkers across the country.

In New Jersey, a bowling alley employee is on the run after stabbing a coworker during an argument, police said.

Police in Linden are looking for Easkon Walker after he allegedly stabbed and seriously injured a co-worker at Linden Lanes on Nov. 8. The coworker, a 25-year-old man from Newark, was outside of the bowling alley suffering from multiple stab wounds when officers arrived.

Officials said the worker and Walker got into an argument at work that escalated. Police alleged that Walker pulled a knife and stabbed the victim multiple times.

Walker fled the scene before police arrived, officials said. Walker has been charged with aggravated assault and weapons charges, police said, and was still on the run, as of Nov. 11.

In Chicago, a man was charged with shooting two of his former coworker to death.

Raylon East, 36, of Chicago, was charged with two felony counts of first-degree murder and one felony count of unlawful use of a weapon in possession of a felon after allegedly shooting his coworkers at Navy Pier. Police said East was arrested on South Cottage Grove Avenue earlier this month and identified as the gunman in the shooting.

Officials said the shooting happened at an administrative office of the loading docks at Navy Pier. Both victims, Lamont Johnson, 51, of Lansing, and Peter Jennings, 47, of Chicago, were shot in the head and died after they were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Police said East was a disgruntled employee at the Levy Restaurant at Navy Pier until he was fired just days prior to the shooting. Officials said he had worked there since August 2022, and was cited multiple times for aggressive behavior toward his co-workers during his time there.

Video surveillance of the incident showed East entering the loading dock area of his former job site. The two victims were sitting at their desks in the purchasing office adjacent to the loading docks. The victims were discovered about 12 minutes later when another employee at the pier found their bodies and called 911.

Video also showed East throwing the gun into Lake Michigan. Divers with the Chicago Police Department’s Marine Unit found the gun and firearms’ experts said there was a “high-confidence correlation between the gun and the casings that were recovered” at the scene of the shooting.

After turning himself in three days later, East identified himself in a still image of him visiting the shooting area and a still image of himself entering the courtyard of his residence in the same clothing.

In Gold River, Calif., a man stabbed by his coworker in late October is recovering, police said.

Police in Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said the two men got into a fight that escalated until one stabbed the other. The suspect fled while the other worker was taken to a nearby hospital after suffering from a stab wound to the arm.

And in Lehigh Valley, Penn., a Trader Joe’s warehouse employee stabbed their coworker multiple times during a dispute at work.

Police said Cristian Burgos Vasquez, 39, of Allentown, was charged with felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor simple assault and summary harassment after a fight with his coworker got out of control.

Trooper Nathan Branosky, public information officer with Pennsylvania State Police’s Troop M said the incident started around 7 p.m. on Oct. 22 when Burgos-Vasquez and the victim started arguing. Burgos-Vasquez then approached the victim with a knife and stabbed him under his left arm and left bicep, court records indicate. The pair then fell to the ground and Burgos-Vasquez stabbed the victim three more times. At one point, other coworkers tried to break up the fight, but Burgos-Vasquez broke free and approached the victim again.

However, at some point, Burgos-Vasquez fled to an employee locker room while the victim was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Burgos-Vasquez allegedly told investigators that he merely held the knife and swung his arms multiple times in the direction of the victim. He has been arraigned and was sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of bail.

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