By Chris Jamele
Buffalo, NY – A daytime shooting in a popular Delaware Avenue restaurant has claimed two victims.
Eighteen year old Rick Costner, Jr., who worked as a sous chef at Merge restaurant, was pronounced dead at Buffalo General hospital. Costner's father, forty year old Rick Sr., the general manager of the restaurant, is being listed in stable condition at Erie County Medical Center.
The motive for the shooting is yet to be determined.
Ernesto Arechavaleta-Taureaux, a dishwasher at the restaurant, has been charged with second degree murder, attempted second degree murder and criminal possession of a gun.
The fifty-one year old employee was subdued by other employees and held until police arrived. He will be arraigned today.