A Wingstop employee in Texas has been arrested after allegedly shooting and killing his supervisor during an argument, police said.
Mark Leon, 22, was taken into custody Monday night after Irving Police found Christopher Gobert dead and another person injured at a Wingstop on E. Irving Boulevard in Irving, Texas.
According to FOX4, police were called to the restaurant on Monday around 7:30 p.m. in response to a shooting.
Leon fled the restaurant after the shooting but was reportedly arrested within 10 minutes. Police also recovered a gun.
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Suspect Mark Leon, 22, has been charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. (Dallas County Jail)
According to an arrest affidavit, Leon said the argument began when Gobert, the Wingstop manager, sent him home early. Leon was new to the restaurant and had been there less than a month.
Police said Leon pulled a gun and shot the manager multiple times, while another employee was hit in the head and leg by stray bullets.
Leon was charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
Gobert was a hard worker who worked at Wingstop and a grocery store, people close to him said.
“That’s all he did. He was just working. He wanted my parents to get ahead because my dad’s health wasn’t good and my mom couldn’t work because she had to take care of him,” his brother-in-law, Adrian Hernandez, told Fox 4. “So he wanted to buy them a house. That’s the only reason he was working two jobs.”
“He was just doing his job,” Hernandez added, “and he was killed for doing his job.”
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A Wingstop employee in Texas has been arrested for shooting and killing his boss. (Wingstop)
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Hernandez said he’s been impressed with Gobert’s demeanor and growth.
“He used to be a kid and he used to act like that, and now I see him walking around with his head held high and with a great attitude,” Hernandez said. “It was a big accomplishment for him, and for him to still be doing that and providing for his family is just unbelievable, something you don’t see very often for someone my age. To do that at 19 is just unbelievable.”
Hernandez said he hopes the suspect “repents and really thinks about what he did.”
“He took someone’s son, someone’s uncle, someone’s brother,” he said.
