A young employee of a McDonald’s restaurant in Brooklyn (NYC) was shot in the face outside the fast food establishment after arguing with a customer.
The 23-year-old was working at the fast food restaurant at 1531 Fulton St. in the neighborhood. Bed-Stuy, when he got into an argument with a female customer inside the restaurant yesterday around 7 pm, according to police sources.
Apparently the conflict started when the woman complained that her fries were cold, for which he complained to the employee, detailed Daily News. The fight escalated outside and the woman’s adult son pulled out a gun and shot the worker in the face, the NYPD said.
The unidentified victim was rushed to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition. Police detained a 20-year-old man at the scene. New York Post.
He was not the first fast food employee to suffer a violent attack on the job in NYC this year. In March a customer was brutally beaten during a robbery at a McDonald’s in Midtown Manhattan. also that month in another restaurant of that chain in East Harlem, the Hispanic employee Ángel Miguel Salazar (23) was stabbed.
That stabbing happened exactly two months later and a block from the “Burger King” restaurant where an alleged former employee returned to steal and fatally shot 19-year-old worker Krystal Bayron Nieves.
In NYC, armed violence continues unleashed in 2022, especially with young attackers and perpetratorsputting up a great challenge to the new mayor Eric Adams, who since taking office in January has found obstacles within his own Democratic party y Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders to face the crisis.
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Worker at Brooklyn McDonald’s was shot in the face by customer’s son during wild spat over cold fries, police say
The customer called her 20-year-old son, who rushed to the McDonald’s and started a fight with the worker.https://t.co/OFB0Wxcggd— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 2, 2022
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