Man charged with assault allegedly threw signs, hit Tim Horton’s worker in face

911 caller: Accused man ‘said he had a gun, (and) we all split.’
A member of the Springfield Police Division interviews employees of the Tim Horton’s on East Main Street on Monday morning, May 15, 2023, after a customer reportedly assaulted two of the employees. MARSHALL GORBY \STAFF

A member of the Springfield Police Division interviews employees of the Tim Horton’s on East Main Street on Monday morning, May 15, 2023, after a customer reportedly assaulted two of the employees. MARSHALL GORBY \STAFF

A Springfield man was charged Tuesday in the reported assault of two Tim Horton’s workers on the city’s east side Monday morning.

According to Clark County Municipal Court records, Paul Campbell, 32, allegedly went to the Tim Horton’s at 2000 E. Main St. to pick up a Door Dash order and became upset when an employee told him she would help him once she finished another task. He reportedly threw a wet floor sign at the ceiling, left the store and threw another sign at the employee’s car and struck her in the face with keys in his hand when she went to tell him to leave.

Another employee left the store and tried to pull Campbell off of the woman, but he allegedly punched her in the face, knocking off her glasses. Both women “attempted to defend themselves by fighting back,” according to court records.

Campbell drove off in a blue minivan after a male employee reportedly pulled him off the women.

In a 911 call obtained by the Springfield News-Sun through public records law, a Tim Horton’s employee told the dispatcher the man had attacked his manager and punched her in the face.

“My manager is bleeding from the forehead, down,” the caller told the dispatcher.

One employee had a cut near her hairline and facial pain and the other had facial and stomach pain, according to court records.

The 911 caller described the suspect as a “heavyset guy in a blue minivan” and gave dispatchers the license plate number to Campbell’s blue minivan. He said Campbell had been “ranting and raving” about issues with the Door Dash order.

According to court records, while an officer was speaking with the women, Campbell called police dispatch and said he would meet officers in the parking lot of the nearby Save A Lot, where he was taken into custody and identified as the attacker by the first employee.

Paul Campbell, 32, is charged with assaulting two Tim Horton's employees on Monday morning.

Credit: Clark County Jail

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Credit: Clark County Jail

Campbell told police that he threw the signs, but was struck by the first employee and attacked by two others and other customers.

Campbell is charged with second-degree felonious assault, misdemeanor assault, and was arrested on an unrelated warrant for misdemeanor theft.

The 911 caller said Campbell had told them that he had a gun and said he didn’t know which way the man drove off when the dispatcher asked.

“He said he had a gun, (and) we all split,” the caller said.

Tim Horton’s closed in the immediate aftermath of the incident but reopened a short time later. Campbell was listed Tuesday as being in custody at the Clark County Jail.

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