A Guyanese man, who worked at a Chili’s restaurant in Miami Gardens, Florida, was shot dead following an argument with a colleague who contacted her boyfriend to intervene.
Dead is 36-year-old Lester Reid.
Dead: Lester Reid
Reports are the now dead man was shot least twice by his colleague’s boyfriend at the restaurant. During the argument with Reid, the woman reportedly called her boyfriend, who entered the restaurant and opened fire, fatally striking Reid.
The shooter then left the restaurant and went into hiding. Paramedics transported Reid to a nearby hospital, where he later died.
Reid moved to the United States several years ago and worked as a cook at the restaurant.
The shooter, Arturo Exum, 31, turned himself in to Miami Gardens Police on Tuesday morning. He is reportedly on a three-year probation after pleading no contest to charges of felony battery and felony domestic strangling in 2015.
According to his arrest paperwork, he was angry over debit card use and strangled his live-in fiancée until she was unable to breathe and passed out. After she awoke, he pointed a .380 Ruger handgun at her, and said he was going to kill her.
Shooter Arturo Exum
The woman’s oldest daughter was in the home when this occurred. The ex-fiancée had three previous temporary restraining orders against Exum, who had been charged, but not prosecuted in three previous domestic violence incidents against the same woman.
The most recent of those incidents included a charge of aggravated battery against a pregnant woman.
