COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Police identified suspects Friday in a violent incident at a Waffle House where a group of teens attacked an employee.
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The attack occurred around 1 a.m. Sunday at the restaurant on Sandy Plains Road. The employee had asked the teens to leave because they were being rowdy and refused to order.
Surveillance video captured the attack.
Two of the suspects, both 17 years old, have been arrested and are in jail. Police are searching for a third suspect, aged 18.
“One of them climbed onto the counter and then jumped down onto my son,” Sam Jackobeit, the victim’s mother, told Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell.
He was put in a headlock after he said he told the group of teens to leave. They hit him multiple times in the head, leaving him bloodied and with torn muscles, his mother said.
“Waffle house employees, they are just employees,” she said. “They are not MMA fighters. They just want to do their work.”
Sammy Dodd and Blake Talley-Stewart, both 17 are in custody, while police are looking for 18-year-old Daniel Riley. They all face multiple charges.
Rumors spread online that the teens were from nearby Sprayberry High School, but the suspects do not attend any high schools in Cobb County, according to police reports.
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