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Updated · Fox News · Sep 7

Jimmy John's Worker Charged After Shooting 14-Year-Old in St. Louis, Held Without Bond

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Sep 7

Jimmy John's Worker Charged After Shooting 14-Year-Old in St. Louis, Held Without Bond

Q: What sparked the fast-food feud that left a teen wounded and a restaurant employee behind bars?

The shooting appears to have been sparked by an argument between Jimmy John’s employee Adam White and a woman who had previously worked at the restaurant. Police and court records say the dispute began inside or near the Jimmy John’s on Laclede Avenue and involved the 14-year-old girl’s mother and people connected to the restaurant. Additional reporting indicates the mother was a former employee, and White, who worked there, argued with her before the confrontation spilled into the parking lot. The conflict intensified when the woman’s boyfriend arrived with the teen. As the woman, her boyfriend and the girl got into a car and drove away, investigators say White fired several shots into the rear of the vehicle. One round struck the girl in the leg. So, while investigators have not publicly detailed the original grievance, the feud was rooted in a personal workplace-related dispute between a former female employee and current Jimmy John’s worker Adam White that escalated into gunfire.

Q: Who is the mysterious 38-year-old man arrested alongside the shooter in this campus-adjacent parking lot chaos?

He has not been publicly identified in the reporting provided. The available news reports name only Adam White, 27, the Jimmy John’s employee charged after police say he fired into the car. They also note that a 38-year-old man was arrested during the investigation, but no name, role, or charges for that second man were included in the cited police statements or court records. What is clear from the reporting is that police said White left the scene and later returned, driven by a friend, before being taken into custody. Even so, the public accounts do not explicitly say that the unnamed 38-year-old man was that friend, nor do they explain whether he was an employee, an associate, or someone arrested on a separate theory connected to the case. So the best factual answer is that the “mysterious 38-year-old man” remains unidentified in the public reporting cited here, and authorities had not publicly detailed his connection as of those reports.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 7

A 27-year-old Jimmy John's employee, Adam White, was charged after police said he fired into a departing vehicle and hit a 14-year-old girl in the leg Saturday evening in St. Louis.
Court records say the shooting followed a dispute tied to the girl's mother and several people associated with the restaurant, then escalated into a parking-lot argument involving a former employee, her boyfriend and the teen.
Police allege White fired multiple rounds into the rear of the car as it drove away, and investigators found ballistic damage to the trunk; the girl was hospitalized in stable condition.
White allegedly fled, then returned and was arrested; after receiving Miranda warnings, he admitted firing at the vehicle, police said, and a judge ordered him held without bond on assault, weapons and child-endangerment charges.