TikTok star Tylah Ann Shorter learns fate over Caloundra pizza shop assault on Sunshine Coast
A young hairdresser and teenage TikTok influencer has cried in court as she admitted attacking the owner of a pizzeria during an argument over an order.
Tylah Ann Shorter, 19, faced the Caloundra Magistrates Court on Tuesday, charged with aggravated assault on a person over 60 and public nuisance.
The incident happened on February 3 outside a pizza restaurant in Caloundra, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
The court heard Shorter punched the owner haymaker-style after an argument between the two and a co-offender falsely claimed she had not received a pizza she never paid for.
The court heard the owner had offered to give the pair a pizza in an attempt to defuse the situation. Sunshine Coast daily reports.
Hairdresser and influence Tylah Ann Shorter (pictured) pleaded guilty to punching a pizzeria owner in the face ‘haymaker style’ after an argument over an order in February
Shorter and the co-defendant continued to verbally abuse the owner as they waited for the free order before the pair were asked to leave as they were scaring away potential customers.
Shen struck the aggravated owner with a “wild punch”, police prosecutor Stephen Potter told the court.
The impact knocked the owner’s glasses off his head and fell to the ground.
The court heard Shorter and her co-accused continued to shout from outside the store, where they were arrested shortly afterwards.
Shorter’s lawyer, Matthew Cooper, told the court his client was drunk at the time and dealing with personal issues.
The feud between Shorter (pictured), the owner, was sparked by an accomplice who falsely claimed they had not received a pizza for which she had never paid
Mr Cooper added that Shorter has since written an apology and completed alcohol and anger management programmes.
He also noted that Shorter did not initiate the confrontation, but was responsible for the “brief” violence towards the owner.
Acting Magistrate Raelene Ellis ordered the influencer to complete 150 hours of community service and placed her on probation for 18 months.
Magistrate Ellis scolded the influencer and said employees have the right to be safe in their workplace.
“They didn’t deserve the way you treated them,” she said.
Shorter was also ordered to pay the owner $180 to replace the broken glasses and an additional $250 in restitution.
No conviction was recorded.