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Woman, 75, dies after fight with fast-food worker over drive-thru order issue
MLive.com ^ | 5/20/2026 | Brandon Champion

Posted on 05/20/2026 5:06:36 PM PDT by simpson96

Police are investigating after a 75-year elderly woman died following a fight at a Tim Hortons in Indiana.

According to the Fort Wayne Police Department, the confrontation between Anita Grayson and a 17-year-old employee and a 20-year-old shift leader began just after 8 a.m. on May 13 after Grayson entered the fast-food restaurant to address an issue with an order she had received through the drive-thru.

Police say Grayson was berating the younger worker before the shift lead stepped in and asked Grayson to leave the store.

Grayson is then alleged to have shoved the shift lead and struck her in the face, according to police, who also shared security footage that showed Grayson and the shift employee on the floor of the Tim Hortons.

Police said the shift lead was left with both scratches and also had a “chunk of hair” pulled from her head. Following the fight, police said Grayson sat down at a table before picking up the “shift lead’s hair from the floor” and placing it on her bag.

Moments later, police said Grayson laid down on the floor with the shift lead checking up on her and bringing her a cup of water. Once officers arrived, they found Grayson unresponsive and she was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.(snip)

No arrests have been made in connection with the death and Grayson’s cause of death has not been determined.


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1 posted on 05/20/2026 5:06:36 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96
The dark dusky shadowy indigo side of the doughnut racket.

2 posted on 05/20/2026 5:10:22 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: simpson96

Down goes Frasier.


3 posted on 05/20/2026 5:12:57 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: simpson96

Grandma lost.


4 posted on 05/20/2026 5:14:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: simpson96

She might’ve been having a stroke which affected her decision making


5 posted on 05/20/2026 5:14:27 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: central_va

True.


6 posted on 05/20/2026 5:33:09 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Skywise

Most likely.


7 posted on 05/20/2026 5:33:17 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: simpson96
No arrests have been made

Phrase proves this is not a hoax or an AI story.

8 posted on 05/20/2026 5:36:27 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: central_va
Grandma picked up the employee's hair and put it in her purse? Is that a thing now? After a brawl, they like to keep whitie’s hair?
9 posted on 05/20/2026 5:40:50 PM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
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To: Libloather
Down goes Frasier.

"And there's the manager in a neutral corner for the mandatory count, just as cool as can be."

Modified from Howard Cosell's further comment.

10 posted on 05/20/2026 5:43:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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I looked at the video. The employee was the first one to touch anyone. (Grandma was verbally acuxive and took an aggressive posture, but didn’t touch the worker until she was touched first). That complicates everything.


11 posted on 05/20/2026 5:45:07 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: simpson96

Say what you will about the deceased, from the description of the fracas, for a 75 year little old woman, she put up one hell of a fight.


12 posted on 05/20/2026 5:49:00 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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Tim Horton’s was founded by a famous Canadian hockey player. Hockey always has brawls. Why not donut places?

He first tried a hamburger place which didn’t make it and then had his first donut shop in 1964 and never looked back.


13 posted on 05/20/2026 5:49:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Darky. Tsk, tsk.


14 posted on 05/20/2026 5:53:55 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: Dr. Sivana

“I looked at the video. The employee was the first one to touch anyone. (Grandma was verbally acuxive and took an aggressive posture, but didn’t touch the worker until she was touched first). That complicates everything.”

Once the aggression ends, the clock is reset.

Then the lady shoves the employee but ends that aggression.

That again resets the clock.


15 posted on 05/20/2026 5:56:18 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: simpson96

Guy apparently hadn’t seen Adam Sandler versus Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore.


16 posted on 05/20/2026 5:57:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

Tim Horton’s was founded by a famous Canadian hockey player. Hockey always has brawls. Why not donut places?


I was disappointed to learn Stan Mikita’s Doughnuts from Wayne’s World was fictional.


17 posted on 05/20/2026 5:57:57 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: simpson96

Here’s what wasn’t in the article: from today’s MSN (spit)
“...dispute between an elderly black woman and a younger white female employee at a Tim Hortons restaurant in Fort Wayne, Indiana last week...”


18 posted on 05/20/2026 5:58:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: simpson96

she killed herself over a coffee order


19 posted on 05/20/2026 5:59:33 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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aged ghettopotomous ... guess age didn’t mellow her like a fine wine ...


20 posted on 05/20/2026 6:02:38 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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