PANAMA CITY BEACH — Police have arrested a man for allegedly stabbing a coworker at a local seafood market, according to a Panama City Beach Police Department news release.
Orlando Thompson, 26, was arrested Tuesday on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after a work squabble over gumbo seasoning “quickly escalated” into an armed engagement, PCBPD reported.
Police reported that at Buddy’s Seafood Market, 111 State 79, Thompson and a coworker, Caleb Halley, began arguing over the amount of spice that should be put into the restaurant’s gumbo. Thompson armed himself with a wooden board and Halley with a small wooden knife, PCBPD reported.
Thompson retreated and the skirmish seemed to be at an end. However, video surveillance from the business depicts Thompson’s return, swinging and thrusting a knife at Halley, police said.
Halley suffered three lacerations to his torso, one of which caused serious injury, police reported. He was treated with non-life threatening injuries at a local hospital after waiving down an ambulance.
Thompson was arrested and taken to Bay County Jail for first appearance on the charges.