A deranged St. Louis mother opened fire, and threw a bowl of soup inside of a suburban Missouri sushi restaurant, after hearing racial slurs through a translation feature on her headphones and having an issue with her food order.
Aaliyah N. Moorehead, 31, was inside of the local eatery in Kirkwood on Wednesday night with her 9-year-old child and another adult woman, where police say she became agitated over an issue with her order, Fox2Now reported.
Wasabi Sushi Bar staff offered to fix the order, but Moorehead began swearing at a server and was promptly asked to leave.
Moorehead then threw a bowl of soup at the server, striking him and other people inside of the restaurant, authorities allege.
The male server tried to block himself from Moorehead with a chair, but she grabbed it and threw it.
The unhinged woman then took out a 9mm Glock handgun and said to the employee “you’re going to get it,” before firing a single shot in his direction shortly after 8:30 p.m, First Alert 4 reported.
At the time of the shooting, Moorehead’s daughter was walking between her mother and the server.
The shot missed the server and went through a refrigerator, striking a wall. No one was reported injured from the shooting, police said.
Moorehead later told local cops that she believed the restaurant staff were rude to her and her family on arrival, and that she had overheard the chefs making racial and derogatory comments about herself and her family in Spanish through a translation feature on her AirPods, Kirkwood police spokesperson Officer Gary Baldridge said.
Police said the restaurant manager told officers that the woman and her family drove away in a white SUV, which was located a short time later by police and the occupants of the vehicle were detained.
Moorehead, her 9-year-old child and the other adult woman were identified by police after reviewing the restaurant’s security footage.
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged the reckless mother with first-degree assault, armed criminal possession, unlawful use of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child, and first-degree property damage.
Moorehead is being held on a $150,000 cash-only bond at the St. Louis County Justice Center, and it is not known when she will next appear in court.