Fight between gas station employee, customer leads to arrest
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Police say a gas station clerk turned violent Friday morning, and a customer says she wasn’t afraid to fight back.
Police arrested 19-year-old Ceylon Hunt, who was working at the Speedway gas station near 82nd Street and Castleton Road.
A woman, who asked WISH-TV to not report her name, said she walked into the store just after midnight Thursday to buy a breakfast sandwich and saw Hunt working behind the food counter.
“The guy was just going off, like ‘This place sucks’ and ‘I don’t wanna do this,’” she said.
She said she asked Hunt if he’d be OK to make her sandwich.
“He goes, ‘I’m back here.’ And I go, ‘Oh, there’s no need to be rude or anything.’”
The two argued back and forth.
“He goes, ‘I’ll come around there and I’ll beat your ‘A’,” she said. “So I was like, ‘OK.’”
She said he did come around the counter and stood close to her face.
“So I put my hand up and I was like, ‘You need to back up,’” she said. “So he pushed my hand and it hit me in my lip and I just lost it. I defended myself.”
The woman said a few customers saw the fight and one of them tried to break it up with a security guard.
Police said the fight lasted a few minutes until the security worker detained Hunt. A police report and an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson described the woman as a victim.
“(Officers) were able to get statements from everybody that was involved and witnessed it and determined that the male needed to be arrested,” Sgt. Jim Gillespie said.
Gillespie said officers also reviewed security video from the store but IMPD would not release it.
“I don’t know if he got fired,” the woman said. “I hope he did.”
WISH-TV reached out to Speedway’s corporate offices to ask if Hunt is still working for the company. No one has returned the messages.
An employee who picked up the phone at the Castleton gas station said she couldn’t talk about the incident.
Online court records show Hunt is facing charges of battery resulting in bodily injury and intimidation where the threat is to commit a forcible felony.
