Police were called to a restaurant near the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta shortly after 6:30 p.m., the police said in a statement.
Police found two officers shot, and a woman was later pronounced dead in hospital.
“It was a very tragic situation that should not have happened,” Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. told a news conference Monday. “The suspect went into the restaurant (to) order a sandwich and something was wrong with the sandwich, which upset him so much that he decided to vent his anger on two of the employees here.
A 36-year-old man was arrested Sunday night, Hampton said. He declined to identify the suspect, citing the ongoing investigation. Hampton said the suspect used a gun during the incident.
The medical examiner identified the victim as 26-year-old Brittany Macon. The autopsy is not complete, but the preliminary cause of death was gunshot wounds, Bertram Enet, a Fulton County forensic investigator, told CNN.
A 24-year-old woman who was also shot is in critical condition, police said. Her 5-year-old son was also in the store at the time of the shooting.
Hampton said the dispute was over too much mayonnaise in the sandwich, but stressed that the focus should be on “gun violence”, not mayonnaise. “It’s just heartbreaking to know that someone has the audacity to point a gun and shoot someone for even too much mayonnaise on a sandwich,” said Willie Glenn, co-owner of the subway, to a CNN subsidiary of WSB TV.
“They were just model employees,” Glenn told the WSB.
A Subway spokesman said: “Our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims in what was a senseless act of violence. At this time, our main concern is for the members of the franchisees’ team and the guests who were in the restaurant. ”
There have been 74 homicides in the city of Atlanta since the beginning of the year, according to the latest figures from the police department. That’s a 19% increase over the same period last year, the department said.
CNN’s Ryan Young contributed to this report.
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