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Customer skips out on bill before hitting restaurant worker with car, Alabama cops say

A woman is charged with robbery after she’s accused of paying only half her bill before hitting an employee with her car at the Bamboo Steakhouse in Mobile, Alabama on April 24, police said.
A woman is charged with robbery after she’s accused of paying only half her bill before hitting an employee with her car at the Bamboo Steakhouse in Mobile, Alabama on April 24, police said. Screengrab from Google Maps, April/2022

An Alabama woman is charged with robbery after she was accused of paying only half her restaurant bill before mowing down an employee with her car, according to police.

Sharda Winston, 31, was arrested Sunday, April 24, after authorities said she attempted to dine and dash at the Bamboo Steakhouse on Cody Road in Mobile, police said in a news release.

An employee followed her outside, where Winston struck him with her car and left, the release reads. The worker, who wasn’t named, was taken to a hospital for treatment and is expected to be OK.

No one else was injured.

Officers arrested Winston at her home a short time later.

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This story was originally published April 27, 2022 at 9:29 AM with the headline "Customer skips out on bill before hitting restaurant worker with car, Alabama cops say."

Tanasia Kenney
Sun Herald
Tanasia is a service journalism reporter at the Charlotte Observer | CharlotteFive, working remotely from Atlanta, Georgia. She covers restaurant openings/closings in Charlotte and statewide explainers for the NC Service Journalism team. She’s been with McClatchy since 2020.
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