Why was he out?
Via NY Post:
The man accused of tossing a 5-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony at Minnesota’s Mall of America once flew into a rage at a Golden Nugget restaurant in his native Chicago, whacking a customer over the head with a plate and threatening him with a knife.
Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, 24, who’s been charged with attempted premeditated first-degree murder in last Friday’s mall attack, was busted in 2014 for the horrific restaurant incident, authorities said.
“I’ve been here for 20 years at this particular location and I’ve never, ever been that frightened,” Amanda Granlund, a longtime server at the Golden Nugget in the Ravenswood neighborhood, told the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday.
Granlund detailed how Aranda walked into the eatery on a busy Sunday, ordered breakfast and later asked staffers for permission to call his bank after his card was declined, according to the news outlet.
Then, Granlund said, things took a violent turn after a customer sitting at the counter asked a server in Spanish to be moved to a table because Aranda smelled so bad he could not finish his meal.