NAUGATUCK, CT (WFSB) - Two Naugatuck Walmart employees were arrested in connection with the assault of customer who has disabilities, police said.

Naugatuck police identified the suspects as 45-year-old Shelly Alam and 39-year-old Robert Mclaughlin, both of of Waterbury.

The incident happened on Wednesday around 7 p.m. at the Walmart on New Haven Road.

“Police learned that two customers, one of them handicapped and using an electric scooter, were shopping for clothing and needed assistance,” police said in their report. “One of the customers asked an employee, [Alam], for assistance. Alam responded in a manner in which a verbal altercation between the two took place and then escalated.”

Police said Alam also ridiculed the customer’s handicap.

When the customer requested to speak with

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