EXCLUSIVE: Starbread Pittsburg employees attacked by customer over COVID rules

All day lengthy, a gradual stream of shoppers pours into the Starbread bakery, positioned in a strip mall alongside Harbor Avenue in Pittsburg, California. Together with the empanadas and lumpia, the star of the present is most definitely its Seniorita bread.

One man and his daughter, walked in to order a field of 55.

1000’s of those buttery, candy crowd favorites are offered every day from this family-owned location.

“Seeing the neighborhood comfortable and excited buying our bread is thrilling,” mentioned Jesse Sanchez, supervisor of the situation.

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That pleasure, although, was shattered with the final buyer Monday night because the store was getting ready to shut.

“Once I noticed the video, I used to be shocked,” Sanchez mentioned.

That surveillance video exhibits a person, clad in a shirt that reads “ARMY” approaching the register. He was identified to workers after beforehand ignoring COVID protocols throughout the holidays.

“We requested him to maintain his social distancing from one other buyer who was in right here,” mentioned Sanchez’s spouse, Cyrelle Sanchez, who additionally works on the location.

She defined how the person had are available and stood exceptionally shut to a different buyer. He was requested to go away and never come again.

In one other unusual twist, workers mentioned the person on Monday evening informed them that the earlier offender wasn’t him — it was his twin. He was even provided a refund by workers, but it surely wasn’t sufficient.

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“He stored pointing to his shirt which mentioned US Military and he mentioned he wanted respect,” Cyrelle mentioned.

That is when issues escalated. The person began throwing hand sanitizer, the money register terminal and even hurled the donut show.

“They tried to shut the lock on the door and that is when he got here again.”

The person could be seen within the video used within the police investigation, punching the worker’s face and eye and even shutting the door on his arm. Jesse remembers the flip of occasions clearly.

“All I noticed was anger and rage,” he mentioned.

The store’s 53-year-old proprietor, who requested we not use her title or present her face, was additionally punched. She broke a pinky bone and her entire arm is now in solid, one she says her medical doctors consider she might be carrying for at the least a month, if not longer.

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The proprietor can also be forcing herself to return to work regardless of the bodily and psychological ache due to an worker scarcity.

“It is horrible. It is traumatic. Each time I bear in mind the man, I am having chest pains,” she mentioned, whereas attempting to work the now damaged register.

Starbread is now contemplating putting in a take-out window to maintain workers secure, no matter it takes to remain open and present appreciation for the neighborhood that has supported them by means of all of it.

“Even throughout COVID, the neighborhood of Pittsburg, Oakley, is insane. It is wonderful,” Jesse mentioned.

Pittsburg police informed ABC7 Information that the investigation is ongoing and so they’re working to determine the person caught on digital camera.

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