A man who fired a shot inside a Lenox Square restaurant on Mother's Day must spend time in jail and pay the restaurant and the mall for damages, authorities said.
Alexander Dimitri McDaniel was sentenced to six months in jail, another 18 months in a residential treatment facility and five years probation, Fulton County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dontaye Carter said Wednesday. His time in jail and the substance abuse program will count toward his probation, he said.
About 4:30 p.m. May 8, McDaniel was in an altercation with another man inside Zinburger Wine & Burger Bar, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. He slapped the man in the face, pulled out a handgun and fired one shot. No one was injured in the shooting, but the gunfire frightened people inside the mall.
“To me,” witness Rocky Jones told Channel 2 Action News at the time, “it’s really surprising especially on a Sunday … where you’re expecting Mother’s Day and a lot of families. You’re not thinking [about] any crime.”
The men left the restaurant before officers arrived.
McDaniel was arrested hours later on multiple charges, including reckless conduct, first-degree criminal damage to property and discharge of firearms on property of another.
Upon his release, McDaniel must wear an ankle monitor and submit to random drug tests, Carter said.
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