Two restaurant workers stabbed; co-worker soughtBy ROBIN BROWN / The News Journal
07/12/2005
Police are hunting for a Concord Pike restaurant employee who allegedly stabbed two of her co-workers before fleeing, still wearing her uniform.
Someone at the Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar in the Brandywine Commons Center along U.S. 202 called 911 at 10:35 a.m., telling emergency rescue dispatchers that a woman had been stabbed in the waist during an argument with another worker, who then fled.
Three minutes later, another emergency call from the restaurant said there was a second victim, a man, also stabbed in the waist, according to emergency radio broadcasts.
The injured workers’ conditions have not been released, but Delaware State Police spokeswoman Cpl. Helen Anne C. Zane said the injuries were “not too severe.”
At 10:45 a.m., police broadcast an all-points bulletin for the vehicle the worker was driving, a black, two-door 2001 Ford Focus with Delaware license plate number 95246.
As ambulances took the injured people to Christiana Hospital, police staked out the Georgetown Manor Apartments on Del. 273 near New Castle, where state records showed the vehicle was registered to a man and woman.
Police also sent a squad to a Bennett Street address in Wilmington.
“We don’t know at this point where she lives,” said Zane.
Investigators determined that the attacks occurred after two women employees argued somewhere in the restaurant outside the kitchen, Zane said.
“The one female grabbed a 4-inch kitchen knife and came toward the other and cut her,” she said. “As she was running out of the business, a male employee approached her and she also cut him.”
Both victims were taken to Wilmington Hospital for treatment
At 11:45 a.m., when the restaurant usually would be bustling, the violence had halted normal activity.
Detectives questioned employees at the restaurant, including the manager, who said the restaurant would be closed during the police investigation, which was expected to last at least through the lunch hour.
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