Disabled worker says customer attacked him at Daytona Beach Home Depot

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A disabled man said a customer attacked him while he worked at a Home Depot store in Daytona Beach.

Police said a search is underway for the man who rammed a flatbed cart into the back of Robbie Massey’s legs while he was rounding up shopping carts in the store’s parking lot.

“[The] next thing I knew, the customer pushed a flat shopping cart and rammed me,” he said. “I have been treated mean by people before, but not assaulted.”

Massey said he never heard the customer ask for help.

“He goes, ‘Don't start [with] me or I'll break your f---ing face,’” Massey said. “He goes, ‘You wouldn't f---ing help me!’ And I said, ‘That's assault on an associate.’”

When officers arrived, they said the man had already left.

Massey described his attacker to investigators as an older white man with gray hair, wearing a Navy shirt and beige or gray pants and driving a small black pickup truck.

“You're supposed to treat people with respect,” said Massey, who swims competitively in the Special Olympics. “I want him to pay for it. I want him to be prosecuted.”

A store surveillance camera filmed the incident, but Daytona Beach police won’t publicly release the footage.

If caught, Massey’s attacker could face a battery charge, which is punishable by up to a year in jail.

The store said it's also conducting its own investigation.

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