https://thegrio.com/2019/04/10/waffle-house-murder-gainesville-good-samaritan/

By Kia Morgan-Smith -April 10, 2019
Waffle House
A Waffle House in Gainsville, Fla., was the site of a shooting of a man who was handing out $20 bills to customers (WOFL)

A generous do-gooder who handed out $20 bills to customers eating at a Florida Waffle House was shot and killed by a man whose girlfriend argued with him because she didn’t get any money from him.

On Sunday, Ezekiel Hicks, 25, was arrested by police in Gainesville and charged with murder for the killing of 41-year-old Craig Brewer, ABC News reports.

According to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, the whole ordeal was caught on surveillance cameras and appears to show Hicks arguing with the Good Samaritan. Witnesses said Brewer argued with the unidentified woman because she didn’t get any of the cash Brewer was passing out. Hicks intervened in the argument and the two men began to brawl.

The suspect then left the Waffle House and returned with a loaded 9mm Glock pistol. The altercation “lasted only a few seconds” police said, resulting in Hicks shooting Brewer in the head, killing him at the scene.

WARNING: Video contains disturbing images

Officials were already headed to the restaurant after receiving a call that the Waffle House was at maximum capacity, Lt. Brett Rhodenizer, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office spokesman said. But they didn’t arrive before the fatal incident.

“They feel like they were so close and just far enough away to where they couldn’t change the outcome,” Rhodenizer told ABC News on Monday. “This incident went from a verbal altercation to a homicide in minutes, if not seconds.”

“The speed at which it happened and how quickly it went so bad — for both the victim and the suspect — is really kind of the thing that resonates the most with a lot of the folks that have been a part of the investigation,” he added.


Hicks was still at the Waffle House and arrested on the scene. He confessed to the shooting, according to the sheriff’s office. Police are investigating the motive and whether the victim knew the suspect.

“The why of this case will persist for days and weeks as we conduct follow-up interviews, but the how is incredibly straightforward,” Rhodenizer said. “Out of all the investigations that I’ve seen, very seldom do you have an incident from start to finish on video that ends in a murder.

“It was literally in the single digits worth of minutes from the time we received the initial call from the Waffle House, saying, ‘Hey, there’s too many people here, we’d like a hand clearing the restaurant,’ to deputies are on the scene, told about a shooting, and we have a suspect in custody and a firearm recovered.”


According to ABC News, Hicks is being held without bail He has been charged with first degree murder and carrying an unlicensed firearm.




*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

smh

This is a sick sad world we live in these days.

and most likely drunk folks
and a stupid girlfriend that needs to be arrested right along with the shooter

I backspaced about 3 paragraphs.

lemme find out this nxgga got social media with 'RIP NIP' on it. I will put money on somebody commissary to get him handled. (I'm lying, but I am VERY disappointed)

Just throw this dude up under the jail and be done with it.

You going to Waffle House anyway, which means you planned on paying for your meal. So what your girl didn't get $20 from the good Samaritan handing them out?

May have been alcohol involved and a girlfriend trying to gas dude up into doing something. That don't matter tho, what matters is a dude is dead over something so stupid and someone thought the only way to solve their issue was to go back to the car, get a gun, and shoot him in the head.

Niggas out here far too fragile

So if you're in a Waffle House IN Florida there's a chance EVERYBODY might get murked


R.I.P. To that Man, them two need some hard time

is a microcosm of what America is.

fuck, man.

i don't want to live the rest of my life in this fucked up ass country.

d

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Wild shit happens in every state, ours make the news because of our open public records. You think your professor has it in for you? Request all his/her work emails and find out.

I’m sure wild shit happens in other states but wild shit usually makes the news right?

https://youtu.be/12RGHyJR6qw