P.F. Chang's Employee Dies After Being Shot by Another Worker: Police
A Texas man is dead a week after being shot at work by a fellow P.F. Chang's employee.
The shooting took place on the afternoon of August 8 in Corpus Christi. The victim, 34-year-old Travis Boring, was working a shift at the Chinese-themed chain restaurant in La Palmera Mall when he got into a fight with another worker, 42-year-old Anthony Carrington. The fight escalated and Carrington allegedly opened fire at Boring several times before fleeing, according to the Caller-Times.
Police were called to the scene at about 3:30 p.m. local time and found Boring with multiple gunshot wounds.
According to a Tuesday update from the Corpus Christi police blotter, Boring was treated at and released from a hospital shortly after the incident. But during the next week, complications developed, Boring went to another hospital outside the Corpus Christi city limits where he died.
After fleeing the scene of the shooting, police said Carrington carried out an armed bank robbery about a half-hour later. He got away with some money, but the amount was not disclosed by the police. It was later found that before the confrontation at P.F. Chang's, Carrington was involved in an altercation at a residence near Elizabeth Street and Brownlee Boulevard, where he allegedly shot an unnamed 39-year-old man. The man was able to get to a nearby store and call for help.
Carrington was apprehended on North Staples Street roughly an hour after police responded to the mall shooting. He was booked at the Nueces County Jail on a $250,000 bond and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and aggravated robbery. One of his charges of aggravated assault could be upgraded following Boring's death, KIII-TV reported, but that has not been confirmed by police.
Victoria Contreras, who was at the mall at the time of the shooting, told KIII that it was not made clear to shoppers what they should do, and store managers did not know what to do, either. Mall management told the outlet that because police deemed the shooting an isolated incident after Carrington fled, it was not considered "necessary to take any actions that would cause unnecessary distress for our shoppers and tenants such as announcements on the public address system or pulling the fire alarm to clear the mall."
Newsweek reached out to the Corpus Christi Police Department for comment.
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