Customer Stabs Laundromat Worker over Cleaning Delay

Brooklyn, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A laundromat worker was one of several employees stabbed at work over the past few weeks when a customer got upset because his laundry wasn’t done on time.

Police said the female employee was working Monday, Sept. 16, at the Super Laundry in Bath Beach in Brooklyn when a customer entered the store looking for their $15.34 wash-and-fold order. When the order wasn’t ready, the customer allegedly jumped the counter and stabbed the worker, slashing her neck and arms.

First responders rushed the victim to NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn. A co-worker said the woman lost a lot of blood.

The co-worker said the suspect got “mad” and “crazy” when his clothes weren’t ready on time. The co-worker said the laundromat had been busy and his order was still in the washing machine. She identified the suspect as a customer who comes to the laundromat every month or two, and whose mother lives across the street.

The suspect was later identified as Ali Ali. After fleeing the scene, police were able to track the man who was driving a stolen car. State troopers pursued the suspect until the car crashed and caught fire. Ali then fled on foot and was recorded by a trailcam.

Police located Ali in a wooded area on Sept. 20. After a confrontation with Ali, one trooper fired a gun which struck and killed Ali.

In Port Charlotte, Fla., a man is accused of stabbing a worker over a parking decal.

Officials said that deputies were called to the Port Charlotte Wawa where a maintenance worker for CRE Consultants was checking the store’s irrigation. While working the maintenance worker was approached by the manager of a nearby auto parts store. The manager told the worker that a silver Lexus RX had been parked in his parking lot for several days and he wanted it removed.

According to police reports, the worker placed a “no parking” decal on the car and started to fill out paperwork to remove it. Not long after, the worker was approached by Anthony Gooden. The report said Gooden told the worker to remove the sticker, but the worker said the car was on private property and could not stay on the lot overnight.

Reports said Gooden then started to yell at the worker, claiming he owned the property. The worker said he would call law enforcement to sort the issue out. When the worker reached for his pocket, Gooden pulled a small knife from his pocket and stabbed the worker in the chest and jaw. The two men began to fight and fell to the ground where the worker was able to kick Gooden off. When the worker tried to grab a knife from his pocket, his gun fell out instead.

Police said Gooden grabbed the gun and moved toward the worker who got into his truck to leave. The worker then watched Gooden move to the workers truck and shoot at him through his truck’s window. As the worker grabbed for a rifle from his backseat, Gooden allegedly started shooting through the back and front windows.

Gooden ran off, officials said.

When the dust settled, the worker had been stabbed in the stomach and jaw, as well as being shot in the back. Gooden had been shot at the top of his head, the base of his neck, and in his left shoulder, upper chest and rib cage.

Gooden was charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, firing a weapon into a vehicle, larceny and discharging a firearm in public.

In Spokane, Wash., a man was arrested on Friday for stabbing a convenience store worker for refusing to serve him alcohol.

Police said the stabbing happened at Browne’s Addition when a man who appeared to be intoxicated asked an employee for alcohol. After employees confronted the man, he spat on one employee and stabbed the other in the hip.

Officials said the man fled the scene, but was eventually arrested and charged with second-degree assault. The employee who was stabbed was treated at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries.

And in Pismo Beach, Cal., a restaurant employee allegedly stabbed and killed a bartender on Sept. 19.

Officials said the bartender at Giuseppe’s was killed when an employee police identified as “Andrew” stabbed him. The bartender died at the scene, police said.

Although Andrew fled the scene, he later attempted suicide, police said. The employee survived the suicide attempt and was taken to a hospital where he was recovering. Police said he is expected to be arrested for murder after he is released from the hospital.

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