Shopper who coughed on a cancer patient at Florida Pier 1 arrested on assault charge
A cancer patient had a scary shopping trip in Jacksonville in June. In a widely shared video, Heather Sprague shot video of a fellow Pier 1 shopper deliberately coughing on her without a mask.
“I think I’ll get real close to you,” said Debra Hunter, before coughing on Sprague, who is being treated for a brain tumor and has a compromised immune system. Hunter had been arguing with a cashier about returning an item that was not in her possession, Sprague said.
The victim, a mother of 10, told the Miami Herald that she filed a police report a few days after the incident report.
According to Duval County court records, Hunter was arrested, on July 22.
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The 52-year-old New Jersey native is charged with assault.
She was released on $753 bond and is set to have a formal court appearance on Aug. 19.
Sprague told her Facebook friends she was going to get tested for coronavirus after the incident.
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