A 65-year-old customer was randomly attacked by a man while ordering at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Brooklyn (NYC), breaking his nose and eye sockets.
It is not clear if the two knew each other. The New York police released surveillance footage last night of the alleged solicited attacker.
The victim was in her car waiting for her order at the fast food chain at 7602 Flatlands Ave. on March 9 around 1:40 a.m. when the suspect got out of his black Infinity car and started a fight verbal with the. then the aggressor reached into the victim’s vehicle and began punching him repeatedly in the face, according to NYPD.
The older man was taken to the hospital. The perpetrator left his vehicle at the McDonald’s drive-thru and left on foot in an unknown direction, he said. Pix11. It was the last in a series of violent incidents at fast food restaurants of New York since last year.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call to 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In September Héctor Manual Valencia Gómez, 19, was shot to death in another incident in the parking lot of a McDonald’s in New York. This week Gerson Hernández, alleged gang member Mara Salvatrucha MS-13, He pleaded “not guilty” to that crime that occurred on Long Island.
Last month a McDonald’s employee allegedly attacked a customer in Queens (NYC) with a knife, causing cuts to her face and leg. Also in February, a couple of workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Midtown Manhattan (NYC) were stabbed to death by a “crazed” individual who also fled.
On January 23, a young man was stabbed in the middle of a fight that broke out at a McDonald’s restaurant, also in Midtown. A few days earlier, two workers from Taco Bell in midtown were stabbed while trying to stop a couple of teenagers from leaving without paying.
In October, one subject stabbed another in an unprovoked attack outside a McDonald’s restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. That event occurred outside the same establishment where a man had terrorized those present with an ax in September.
Also that month a 19-year-old was shot and killed outside a McDonald’s restaurant in broad daylight in Hempstead, Long Island.
In late August, a Wendy’s employee in Brooklyn was seriously injured after being stabbed in the chest by a co-worker. Earlier that month a 23-year-old McDonald’s worker was shot in the neck in Brooklyn and died after spending three days brain dead and on life support. The son of a client who had complained because his fries were cold was arrested as a suspect, according to witnesses.
In March 2022, a customer was severely 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 one block from the restaurant “Burger King” where a former employee returned to steal and fatally shot 19-year-old worker Krystal Bayron Nieves in January 2022.
