South Austin Karaoke Critique Leads To Hot Sauce Bottle Attack

SOUTH AUSTIN, TX — Everyone's a critic.

A critique over a karaoke performance recently led a woman to strike another over the head with a hot sauce bottle at a Mexican food restaurant last week, CBS Austin reported. Details of the karaoke confrontation have only recently been made available via an arrest affidavit.

Austin police responded to the disturbance at La Catedral del Marisco restaurant, 1605 E. Oltorf St., on June 22. Reportedly, two women who are regular patrons at the weekly karaoke night became embroiled in a physical confrontation, the news station reported.

The victim had just finished her song when Elsa Martin Garcia, 52, began to yell from a few tables away with comments about her singing. As the songstress sat down, Garcia is said to have charged at the victim before hitting her with a glass bottle of hot sauce, according to the report.

Police found the makeshift weapon shattered on a table near the entrance to the restaurant. They found the victim with a one-inch laceration over her left eye and another on the left side of her lip, according to the report. Then, police found the key bit of evidence: Another patron's cell phone video of the karoke-fueled attack.

Garcia was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, which is a second-degree felony.

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