Josh Vaughan, a doorman and barback at Grand Prize Bar on Banks Street in Houston, repeatedly asked the man to wear a face covering to comply with COVID-19 rules at the bar on Monday night.
When Vaughan approached the man after he took a trip to the restroom, he was assaulted.
“Before he could even say ‘mask’ the guy just took the glass and smashed it over his head,” Lindsay Beale, the bar’s general manager, told KTRK.
“I’ve never gotten full on blasted like this. He was quick. He was fast,” Vaughan added. “He got me good.”
Vaughan needed ten stitches, but was “doing as well as he can,” the bar wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
A caption alongside a photo of Vaughan’s bandaged head said: “The realities of running a business during COVID. The only thing our employees did was ask a human to put on a mask. This human proceeded to smash a glass on our employees head for asking him to wear mask. F**k anyone who thinks this or any of this is ok.”
The bar said it wanted to press charges against the man, who had opened a tab.
“He was able to run out and drive off in his car before we [could] stop him,” the bar said in another Instagram post alongside a picture of the suspect.
They also shared footage of the suspect driving off and Vaughan’s Venmo details for anyone who wanted to donate to him.
According to The Houston Chronicle, Houston police responded to the bar around 10 p.m. on Monday.
The suspect is described as a white man with brown hair and aged possibly in his late 20s or early 30s. He was wearing a hat and had a backpack and drove off on Monday in a dark-colored Toyota FJ Cruiser with a white top.
The Grand Prize Bar and the Houston Police Department has been contacted for additional comment.
Houston has more than 110,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 1,500 deaths, according to Harris County’s coronavirus dashboard.
