Midtown customer flees $400 tab and attacks

New at five, a Midtown nail and lash salon says a customer ordered the works, nearly $400 in services, and walked out without paying. The salon even says the suspect assaulted a technician who tried to follow her to get the money. Fox 5's Angelique Proctor says the customer likely didn't realize the nail salon captured the entire thing on security camera. The owner of Glow Lashes and Nails is just hopeful that someone will recognize this so-called customer who took off without paying. You want to trust people, and this makes it harder to trust. The fake customer used the name Kate Washington when she checked in at Glow Lashes and Nails on Piedmont Avenue in Midtown. Surveillance cameras captured the fake customer getting the works, individual lashes and a full set of acrylic nails with gel polish on her hands and toes, plus a design. Technician Desmond Ward was one of the three technicians who worked on her. She tapped her phone on the square system there, and it came back declined. It was the eyelash extension care kit that she gets with the service of eyelashes. She said, I'll leave this here. I'm going to go to the car and grab my money or grab my card. We say, okay. We watch her walk, and I say, Nicole, she's walking pretty far. I don't think she's coming back. Ward now admits he made the mistake of following so-called Kate as she claimed to be going to her car to get cash after her card declined. He says she assaulted him. On the third street, she recognized me because I had on a pretty loud sweater that day. And she said she wasn't a part of the system. She didn't exist before she threw a punch. At me and I blocked it with this hand. Desmond said he ended up at Grady with a fractured finger. Atlanta police want you to help identify fake customer Kate. The cost matters because we are independently contracted so we get paid off of what we do. I didn't get paid for that quality work. The owner says she would hate to change the rules for paying because of one bad actor. In Midtown, Angelique Proctor, Fox 5 News.