Chick-fil-A employee fights off Florida man trying to carjack woman, deputies say

Chick-fil-A employee fights off Florida man trying to carjack woman, deputies say

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida man is behind bars after Okaloosa County deputies say he attempted to take a woman’s keys and steal her car in the parking lot of a Chick-fil-A near Fort Walton Beach on Wednesday, only to be taken down by one of the restaurant’s employees.

The victim was removing a baby from her car when 43-year-old William Branch approached her “wielding a stick and demanding her keys,” an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post states.

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Branch took the keys from her waistband and ent...

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