Joshua Matthew HayesA Chatsworth, Ga., man was arrested over the weekend after allegedly shooting at a truck in a Zaxby’s parking lot.
According to a Dalton Police Department incident report, Joshua Matthew Hayes and Callum Austin Speck got into an argument Saturday afternoon when they left a birthday party for Speck’s son. Hayes said he was leaning against his red Kia Optima, smoking a cigarette, when Speck walked by carrying his son’s plastic four-wheeler.
Hayes asked Speck if the two had a problem. Speck said no. After that, their accounts differ. Speck said Hayes told him to meet in the nearby Zaxby’s parking lot on Airport Road “so we can settle this.” Hayes, meanwhile, said Speck cursed at him and then followed Hayes’ family to the fast-food restaurant.
Hayes said he and Speck are dating sisters, and he told the police the root of the argument was a Facebook comment. Speck had posted a picture of his new house, and Hayes wrote a comment, saying the home was “beautiful.” For some reason, which is not explained in the police report, Speck then texted Hayes.
Allegedly, Speck wrote, “I hope u [sic] like the taste of AK 47’s [sic] and shotgunshells [sic].”