A man wielding what appeared to be a "machine gun" to an employee at Los Agaves on Milpas Street chased away a woman and man dining in the restaurant on Thursday evening.
Santa Barbara police arrived at the location at around 6:30 p.m., but the suspect had fled in a vehicle, apparently leaving a loaded gun magazine behind.
A restaurant employee who witnessed the incident but asked not to be identified described the altercation as very brief. The suspect approached the female victim, who was dining with a man, with the gun pointed down toward the floor. Everybody fled immediately, the employee said.