Police arrest suspect nearly a month after attack that cost fast-food worker an eye

A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an attack on a food service worker in the San Francisco Bay Area that cost the worker an eye. More than three weeks after the incident, police confirmed they have a suspect in custody.

The victim, identified as 19-year-old Bianca Palomera, a resident of Antioch, California, was assaulted on Nov. 12 after trying to protect a child with a disability who was being bullied by the suspect at a Habit Burger where she was working, police said in an announcement shared this week.

Palomera was punched in the face multiple times by the suspect and ultimately lost her right eye because of the incident, the Antioch Police Department said in a statement Monday.