Dunkin’ Donuts Employee Who Fatally Punched Racist Customer Put On House Arrest

FLORIDA- A former Dunkin’ Donuts employee who was accused of fatally punching a white man who spewed racial slurs at him was sentenced to two years of house arrest after pleading guilty to felony battery.

Corey Pujols, 27, was ordered by a Tampa judge on Monday to complete 200 hours of community service and attend anger management.

The deadly incident happened May 4 at the Dunkin’ Donuts.

The customer, Vonelle Cook, 77, a white male, had went through the drive-thru to place his order and became upset over the service. The employees had trouble hearing him and he began to yell.

The employees told Cook to leave, but he parked his car, went inside the establishment and became aggressive with employees, yelling and being verbally abusive to them.

Pujols asked another employee to call 911.

When he asked Cook to leave the store once again, Cook called him a racial slur, police say. Pujols asked Cook not to call him that name and after Cook called him the slur again, Pujols punched him in the jaw.

Cook fell to the floor, hitting his head. He was taken to a hospital where he died three days later.

Pujols was initially charged with aggravated manslaughter, but prosecutors accepted a plea deal from him after he plead guilty to a lesser charge of felony battery, reports FOX 13.