A former North Carolina brewery proprietor was arrested for allegedly hurling a plate at a steakhouse worker’s head after he was advised to not feed his canine off the desk.
David Gary Sholar, 49, the previous proprietor of Edward Train Brewing, was charged with assault inflicting severe damage on Aug. 7, two weeks after he allegedly attacked a LongHorn Steakhouse worker, the Wilmington Police Division wrote on Fb.
Police stated that Sholar had his canine with him whereas eating on the steakhouse on July 23 and commenced feeding the pup off the desk.
A LongHorn Steakhouse worker seen the conduct and knowledgeable him that it was a well being code violation and that he wanted to cease.
Nonetheless, the worker did supply to put a number of the meals in a doggy bag for his pup to get pleasure from later.
Sholar then allegedly misplaced his cool and commenced yelling “obscenities and insults on the sufferer for an prolonged time period,” police stated.
The sufferer ultimately advised Sholar he wanted to depart the restaurant, additional infuriating him.
The worker then reached over to take away a porcelain plate from the suspect, when he “grabbed the plate away and threw it forcefully in opposition to the worker’s head.”
Sholar allegedly hit the worker within the head so laborious that it shattered on affect, leaving the sufferer with a fractured cranium.
The worker was rushed to the hospital, the place he acquired medical remedy for severe accidents, police stated.
Because the assault, the sufferer has continued to wrestle with lingering issues from his head accidents, WECT reported.
Sholar was booked into the New Hanover County jail on Aug. 7 and launched the identical day on a $1,000 bond.
Dealing with a wave of group backlash, his former brewery was compelled to subject a press release clarifying that Sholar was now not concerned with the enterprise.
“We needed to verify that on July 14, 2025, Edward Train Brewing formally got here below new possession and the administration of Amy Ottaway, a change that occurred nicely earlier than the latest incident and for unrelated enterprise causes,” the brewery wrote on Fb.
Edward Train stated that they have been holding off on asserting the change in possession till all of the paperwork was finalized.
The brand new proprietor of the North Carolina brewery is Sholar’s sister, based on WECT.
Following the assault allegations in opposition to Sholar, native restaurant homeowners of “Smoke on the Water” and “Fork ‘N Cork” have began promoting Edward Train Brewing beer for less than $2 and plan to donate the earnings to the injured LongHorn Steakhouse worker.
“It’s an unlucky state of affairs,” Diane Smith, whose household owns each eating places, advised WECT.
“What we need to do is to help the one that was injured, help their enterprise, and to make a degree that this isn’t OK.”
This isn’t the primary time Sholar has confronted group outrage for his actions or has had a run-in with the legislation.
In 2024, he was arrested for assault and speaking threats stemming from an incident involving an area musician that came about inside his former brewery in November 2023, WECT reported.
Sholar later entered an Alford responsible plea to permitting disorderly conduct on a licensed premise and failure to superintend. The court docket dismissed the costs of speaking threats and assault.
Sholar is ready to look again in court docket on Sept. 16 for the alleged LongHorn Steakhouse incident.
