An Asian doctor was told to leave a gas station in Indiana because he was Asian. The Korean-American doctor said that he stopped by the Marathon gas station in Martinville on Friday when the clerk asked him if he was “Chinese” while pointing at a “coronavirus prevention” sign, reports Raw Story. The “coronavirus prevention” sign on the door asked customers to not enter if they had a fever or felt sick. The doctor, David (who wished to not reveal his last name) did not but was told to leave in a “very violent and hateful way.”

“I’ve never experienced anything like this,” David told WISHTV. “He continued to ask where I’m from and yelling at me, and then I told him that I am from Korean descent but was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and haven’t traveled out of the country in many many years – And he just went off.”

David continued, “He was very angry and told me to get out. I wasn’t allowed to buy anything. I’m not allowed to use the bathroom there. ‘Never come back, don’t ever come back,’ in a very violent and hateful way.”

David said he has stopped at the gas station many times prior to the incident. It’s where he fills up on gas to his way to Indianapolis where he treats cancer patients.

Police said they were notified of the incident and told the gas station’s manager that discrimination was not allowed.

“Exactly what I was told was that anyone of Chinese descent was not allowed in the store, and it was directly related to the spread of coronavirus,” police Chief Kurt Sprivey said.

The Indian owner of the gas station apologized for the incident and said that the employee will no longer work there. He noted that he was also an immigrant of Asia and this shouldn’t have happened.