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Houston police make arrest after bar employee attacked over mask request: report

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Houston police have arrested a suspect in connection with a violent attack Monday night against a bar employee who claimed he had asked a customer to wear a face mask while inside the business because of the coronavirus, according to a report.

The suspect, whom authorities identified as Patrick Kelly, 32, has been charged with assault and bodily injury, police Chief Art Acevedo wrote in a Twitter message.

The bar employee, Josh Vaughan, has worked security at the Grand Prize Bar in the city's Museum District off-and-on for nearly seven years, Houston's FOX 26 reported.

On Monday night, the customer appeared to grow frustrated after repeatedly being asked to put a mask on, Vaughan told the station.

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