A security guard who allegedly fired several shots into a vehicle outside a popular northeast Atlanta restaurant last week has been arrested.
The incident happened around 7:30 p.m. Friday outside Mary Mac’s Tea Room on Ponce de Leon Avenue, according to the Atlanta police report.
Security guard Dexter Washington, 46, told police that a customer was driving the wrong way through the parking lot behind the restaurant, and that when he tried to get him to stop, the customer bumped him with the car before exiting the lot.
Washington told police that when he chased the car up the street to a traffic light at Ponce de Leon and stood in front of the car, the man hit him with the car again, and that’s when he fired four shots into the vehicle.
The customer, Dan De’Combes, told police that he was not aware that he had done anything wrong and that when he saw a man with a gun approaching him who was not a police officer, he became afraid and fled.
No one was injured by the gunfire, but when investigators reviewed video from nearby surveillance cameras, the video showed that De’Combes never touched Washington with his car, and actually drove around the guard at the traffic light just before the shots were fired.
Washington was arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and criminal damage to property.
He remained in the Fulton County Jail late Thursday, according to online jail records.
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