No charges to be issued over Tim Hortons customer Anita Graysons death after she died following brawl with manager

Indiana prosecutors have revealed no charges will be filed over the death of a 75-year-old Tim Hortons customer, who died following a bust-up with a drive-thru manager.Anita Grayson suffered a fatal flare-up of congestive heart failure following the May 13 fight in the Fort Wayne coffeehouse – and her death sparked an investigation as authorities initially struggled to rule whether it was accidental or a homicide.Allen County prosecutors on Friday revealed no charges would be filed, clearing any staffers of wrongdoing, according to a report seen by The Post.Grayson, a mom of four, charged into the coffeehouse just after 8 a.m.and berated a 17-year-old staffer upset over her order, prompting the shift manager, 20, to intervene. The shift manager put her hands on Grayson in a bid to stop her from reaching the teen worker before being “forcefully shoved,” Fort Wayne investigators said.The senior then struck the manager on the left side of her nose and she tried to retaliate.

Grayson then grabbed the manager’s face, scratched her and knocked off her glasses before yanking her hair and pulling her to the ground. Then, two other Tim Hortons staffers rushed in and tried to pull the pair apart, but Grayson then pulled a clump of hair from the shift manager.She was then seen putting clumps of hair in her bag before being found unresponsive.Prosecutors refused to file charges as they said the shift manager was defending her colleague.“Grayson’s escalation to striking [the manager] in the face was not a proportionate or justified response to being touched on the shoulders,” investigators said.“As a matter of law, it is Grayson’s blow, not [the manager’s] earlier contact that started the altercation.”The manager’s actions “did not exceed what the ongoing struggle reasonably called for,” investigators said.[Her] “initial intervention is independently justified as defense of a third person,” investigators added.“She said she thought Grayson w...