‘He better have learned a lesson’: Gas station worker beats customer with a bat over broken nacho cheese machine, police say

A Las Vegas gas station worker used a baseball bat to beat a customer he accused of breaking a nacho cheese machine and talking trash to him in a bout of predawn violence, authorities said.

Myron Bullie, 47, faces charges of attempted murder and battery with a deadly weapon, jail booking records show.

The violence happened before sunrise on Sept. 3 at an ARCO in the 5700 block of Rainbow Boulevard. Citing an arrest report, local NBC affiliate KSNV reported that the victim was hospitalized for life-threatening injuries that included brain bleeds and fractures to his skull and face.

The victim’s condition as of Tuesday morning was not available.

Details about the alleged attack were relayed to police from what the suspect allegedly told detectives and a 911 caller, as laid out in the arrest report, cited by multiple local news media outlets.

The attack happened when Bullie allegedly became upset and asked the victim to leave, claiming to police that the victim had taken too much nacho cheese, had broken the machine and had been breaking things in the store, local Fox affiliate KVVU reported.

The victim left but quickly came back. At one point, Bullie allegedly hit him with the bat, later telling investigators the man “pissed me off,” according to the arrest report.

“Don’t talk [expletive] to me … Now everyone gonna see this and they’re gonna know never to talk [expletive] to me,” Bullie allegedly told police, according to the arrest report.

When investigators asked the suspect if he hit the victim hard, Bullie allegedly said, “If it was hard, his head would’ve been smashed on the [expletive] floor and he would’ve been dead,” local CBS affiliate KLAS reported, citing the arrest report.

Police said video surveillance showed Bullie hit the victim multiple times with a bat, KSNV reported. Bullie allegedly told police he hit Taylor twice, once in the head and once in the gut, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

The 911 caller, who noticed the victim bleeding outside, reportedly told police that Bullie said something along the lines of, “I’m not going to call 911, he better have learned a lesson,” the Review-Journal story said.

Bullie was being held on $10,000 bail at the Clark County Detention Center, online booking records show. He is set to appear in court on Sept. 23.

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