A young employee outside of a Florida Chick-fil-A restaurant rushed to help a screaming woman holding a baby this afternoon after a man grabbed her keys and tried to take her car.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 43-year-old William Branch of DeFuniak Springs with carjacking with a weapon and battery.
The victim was getting the infant out of her car at a restaurant at 743 Beal Parkway when she says Branch approached her wielding a stick and demanding her keys.
Deputies say he then grabbed the keys from the waistband of her pants, opened her car door, and got inside.
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When the victim began screaming for help an employee at Chick-fil-A ran to intervene.
Branch landed a punch to the young man’s face but he was not seriously injured.
The employee told deputies that Branch had been involved in another incident shortly before the carjacking attempt.
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