OVERLAND, Mo. — Two customers were injured at a Church's Chicken in Overland, Missouri, after an argument led to a shooting inside the restaurant Wednesday afternoon.
Police said the shooting occurred at around 1:35 p.m. Wednesday at the restaurant on Woodson Road. Police said two customers in the restaurant got into an argument and shot at each other.
The manager said it all started over a mask. He said a customer walked into the restaurant and was asked to leave and get a mask.
When he headed to his car, some people in the parking lot started arguing with him. The manager said someone started shooting at the man, and he shot back.
"It was so scary, my workers in there feared for their lives they had bullet shells that were on the ground in the lobby they had bullet shells that were behind the counter in the lobby," manager Phillip Brown said.
The manager said one of the customers was shot in the leg and ran across the street to a QuikTrip. Police didn't say where the other person was struck.
Police said both customers were taken to the hospital for treatment but did not say how severely either customer was hurt.
The bullets shattered the front door of the restaurant. A few hours after the shooting, workers were replacing a pane of glass on the restaurant.
No other customers or employees were hurt.
No other information about the shooting was made available.