A McDonald’s restaurant worker in New York is on the verge of life and death after being shot and wounded in an altercation with a young man and his mother over cold fries, police and a local newspaper reported on Wednesday. megalopolis.
In a city where gunshots are daily, this new drama occurred Monday night in Brooklyn, one of New York’s five boroughs.
City police (NYPD) have confirmed that a 20-year-old man is in custody and being charged with “attempted murder” and “possession of a firearm”. His companion, aged 18, is also detained and prosecuted for “possession of a firearm”.
According to the story of the NYPD and the tabloid New York Post, a 23-year-old young man, a waiter at McDonald’s, was seriously injured by a bullet in the neck, early Monday evening, and remains hospitalized in “critical condition”.
vulgar argument
It all started with a vulgar argument between a 40-year-old woman and the employee about fries that she considered served cold, according to the newspaper citing police sources. Feeling ridiculed by McDonald’s staff about the temperature of her fries, the client, who confided in the New York Post, then calls her son by video.
The latter bursts into the restaurant, clashes with the waiter before the two go to argue outside. The client’s son then brandished a firearm and shot the employee, according to the police quoted by the daily.
The New York Post published a photo of the victim just before the tragedy and another while he is lying on the sidewalk, visibly affected.
The suspect known to the police
The victim was unknown to the police and the justice system, unlike his attacker who was arrested several times for various crimes and misdemeanors.
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