Video shows Jack in the Box worker shoot at customer over curly fries

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A Texas fast food worker is defending herself after video released this week showed a customer being shot at during a dispute over an order.

The footage, taken from a security camera inside a Jack in the Box restaurant in Houston in March 2021, showed an employee pull a gun out from a back pocket, open the drive-thru window and fire a gun at a customer in a red truck.

“I’m not an angry person,” Alonniea Ford-Theriot told Houston ABC affiliate KTRK. “(I’m) not a mad monster out here. I’m just a woman trying to work for my family.”

The video was released Monday by a lawyer representing a man and his family in a lawsuit over the incident, which began with a dispute over missing curly fries.

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“She’s aiming. She’s leaning,” lawyer Randall Kallinen said at a news conference Tuesday. “She’s not just going up in the air. She’s trying to kill them.”

The customer, Anthony Ramos, said he was in the driver’s seat, according to the lawsuit. His wife and child were also in the vehicle.

“It was pointed right at me,” Ramos said. “I’m surprised she didn’t get me. She said we weren’t going to get them (curly fries).”

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But Ford-Theriot, 30, denied the allegations.

“I’m not going to pull out no gun and shoot at somebody over no curly fries,” she said. “Come on.”

Ford-Theriot claimed the driver was threatening her and calling her racial slurs, which Ramos denied.

According to court records, Houston police found a shell casing outside the restaurant.

Ford-Theriot initially faced a felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge, but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of deadly conduct, a misdemeanour.