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Raleigh, North Carolina – A Hispanic chef opened fire on his coworkers during a birthday celebration at a restaurant, killing his White manager and injuring another Hispanic employee before taking his own life. According to reports, the chef had a criminal history and even voiced support online for a friend who is an anti-White political activist.
On January 17, police responded to a shooting at Coquette, a restaurant in Raleigh’s North Hills neighborhood. Officers discovered the body of the 26-year-old manager Jonathan Schaffer along with two other gunshot victims—24-year-old server Jonathan Aguilar and the alleged shooter, 34-year-old George Colom who acted as the restaurant’s executive chef.
Aguilar sustained a significant, but non-life threatening hand injury while Colom would later die at the hospital the very same day.
Police cited a possible workplace dispute but did not release an official motive. However, sources from Raleigh Magazine suggested the shooting may have stemmed from a “dispute over a mutual love connection who is also an employee at the restaurant.“
The surviving victim stated that the staff, except for Colom, were enjoying the bartender’s birthday cake when the chef opened fire.
“We were having our daily meeting before the shift began,” Aguilar told WRAL News in Raleigh. “One of our employees had brought in a cake to celebrate a bartender’s birthday. She was cutting the cake, and moments later, I was shot.”
Jonathan Schaffer, the deceased victim was remembered as a “beautiful soul,” who valued each of his staff members as individuals. “He was just a kind and beautiful soul,” Katie Carrigan told WRAL.
“He made sure to get to know every single co-worker on a personal level,” Keira Dillon, another staff member, said of Schaffer.
In September last year, Colom was charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Colom pleaded guilty on January 14 and was ordered to pay nearly $200 in court fees.
It was also revealed that Colom served three years in federal prison in 2011 for possession of a stolen firearm while living in New Mexico. His record also included multiple drug charges, which WRAL described as “minor.”
George Colom’s online presence reveals claims of drug dealing, apparent pride in distributing illegal firearms, and even solidarity with an anti-White political activist.
On his Facebook page, Colom posted several photos of unserialized firearms marked with evidence tags. “A wide variety of handguns we sold to [the] ATF,” Colom said, posting a picture of those same guns in February of 2014. The deceased chef also claimed to know how to divide a pound of marijuana into “QPs” or quarter pounds.
Although Colom’s public page was not overtly political, he occasionally shared posts about issues like police corruption. In July 2022, he voiced support for a friend who owns an overtly left-wing Indian restaurant that was reportedly vandalized and robbed.
“In an unfortunate coincidence of timing [my friend’s] business was vandalized this morning, someone smashed a window and stole money from inside!” Colom wrote, adding that the restaurant had been targeted multiple times in recent years.
He further linked the robbery to a previous incident when “white power” groups allegedly marched near the restaurant during protests over the removal of the Silent Sam statue at the University of North Carolina (UNC). Silent Sam, a statue of a generic Confederate serviceman, was toppled in 2019 amid anti-White demands to remove Confederate symbols.
“This wonderful restaurant has been vandalized several times over the course of the last few years … and even was marched on by white power groups during the protests of the Silent Sam statue removal on UNC,” Colom wrote. He further praise his friend saying, “She goes harder than most I know, she doesn’t back down, stubborn even in her beliefs of social justice, equitable wage, and human rights.”
According to the census, North Carolina is 60.7% non-Hispanic White with Hispanics making up 11.4% of the population. Additionally, Black residents make up 22% of the population, while mixed-race, Asian, and American Indian individuals represent smaller minorities.
The Raleigh Police Department’s crime statistics include significant gaps in the data. Between 2019 and 2023, the department arrested 275 homicide suspects but failed to record whether they were Hispanic or Latino in 254 cases, with similar issues in victim reporting. As a result, the “White” racial category has become ineffective for tracking crime accurately.
Violent crime is often associated with the Black community, which is disproportionately represented among perpetrators according to FBI crime statistics. However, the Hispanic community also contributes a significant number of offenders.
In October of 2022, A White handyman working at a job site inside of a “sober-living” house was stabbed to death by a mentally-ill Hispanic with an extensive criminal history. When police asked the suspect why he killed the innocent man and another nearby resident with a knife, the suspect claimed that the anime television series, Dragonball Z, told him to do it.
Last October, a White mother of three was found dead in Mesa, Arizona from multiple gunshots at a bus stop. For the crime, police arrested a 44-year-old “unhoused” Hispanic man who they say had been panhandling at the time. Police reports suggest the Hispanic man fired at least 38 bullets at a complete stranger based on a later refuted claim that she was menacing passerby with a pistol.
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