Quintavius Martin, the Waffle House employee charged with shooting and killing a customer during an argument in Fulton County earlier this month, is out of jail.
Martin, who was released from the Fulton County jail Saturday on a signature bond, told Channel 2 Action News that he shot because he felt threatened.
“My intention was not to harm anybody,” Martin told the TV station Monday. “I was trying to make money and live.”
Martin said he has been fired and cannot return to his former place of employment.
The shooting happened about 4:30 a.m. June 13 at the 24-hour restaurant on Fulton Industrial Boulevard at Shirley Drive, just south of I-20. Adrian Mosley, 33, of Atlanta, died.
Witness Ontray Haley previously told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he was eating at the Waffle House when two men and a woman came in the restaurant.
“The girl got into it first with the security guard and they told her she had to leave the property,” Haley told The AJC. “So she left but the other two guys hung around and they told them they had to leave. The cook refused to serve them because they were getting unruly.”
Haley said the two men “got into it with the cook and the guy that got shot, he threatened the cook. He told him, you come outside and I’m going to fire you up, which basically meant he wanted to shoot him.”
Haley said that’s when gunfire broke out.
“It occurred right at the counter,” he said. “It was just chaos; I was ducking for cover like everybody else. I looked up and I saw the guy in the floor, dead.”
In addition to the murder charge, Martin faces charges of possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony and carrying an unlicensed weapon.
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