Impatient customer attacks restaurant employee in Downtown LA – NBC Los Angeles

A restaurant worker who was brutally attacked by an impatient customer in downtown Los Angeles fears for his safety after the attacker threatened to return.

Kevin Oxlaj worked at the Wokcano restaurant near the intersection of Flower and 7^th Streets when an angry customer waiting to be served demanded to speak to the manager.

“The food took forever and we told him, ‘We’re sorry. You’re welcome to leave without paying,'” Oxlaj said. “And then as he was walking out, he started muttering to my co-worker that they were not good people. They didn’t know how to run a restaurant. That’s when I told him, ‘Hey, come on, man. (The manager is) pregnant. Learn to have respect.’ When I told him that, he blew it.”

Surveillance footage of the disturbing altercation showed the customer attacking Oxlaj before another customer intervened and stopped the attack. The victim suffered physical injuries to the face and neck as well as emotional wounds.

“I had a nightmare this morning where he ended up in my dream and beat me again in the same position I woke up in and my mother screaming for help,” Oxlaj said.

The victim shared that the attacker vowed to come back, which made him feel uneasy and dangerous at work. No arrests have been announced so far in connection with the attack.

“Please help us put him behind bars because I don’t want him to do the same thing to anyone or any other person,” the victim pleaded.