Background: The Little Caesars restaurant on Patrick Street Plaza in Charleston, West Virginia (Google Maps). Inset: Jahtique Farmer (West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation).
Jahtique Farmer, 21, is currently charged with malicious wounding, as per the records from the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility. The incident unfolded on a Thursday evening.
According to court documents accessed by local NBC affiliate WSAZ, Farmer was conversing with a colleague at the Little Caesars on Patrick Street Plaza in Charleston before they both stepped outside. During this time, a man standing by the drive-thru window was reportedly staring at Farmer, which agitated him, as noted by the other employee.
Authorities stated that the co-worker retrieved a firearm from Farmer’s car glove box and handed it to him. Subsequently, they returned inside the restaurant.
The man remained near the drive-thru, prompting the suspect to approach the window and allegedly shout at the individual, who was seated in a parked vehicle.
The man outside apparently remained by the drive-thru, as the suspect is alleged to have gone to the window and screamed at him while the man sat in his parked vehicle.
“You want to kill me,” Farmer reportedly said to the man before firing his gun three times through the window. The other man was hit in the bottom of his face and near his left rib cage, per WSAZ, but he was listed as being in stable condition after driving himself to the hospital.
Farmer was arrested the following day and booked into the South Central Regional Jail. It is unclear whether he and the victim knew each other.
Farmer is still listed as in the custody of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
