A restaurant employee McDonald’s New York City is between life and death after being shot and injured during an altercation with a young man and his mother over fries, police and a newspaper in the megacity reported Wednesday (Aug.3). In a city where shooting is daily, this new tragedy occurred Monday night in Brooklyn, one of New York’s five boroughs. City police (NYPD) confirmed to AFP that a 20-year-old man was in custody and prosecuted for “attempted murder” and “possession of a firearm”.
His partner, 18, is also detained and prosecuted for “possession of a firearm”. According to the NYPD and New York Post tabloid article, a 23-year-old McDonald’s waiter was shot and seriously injured in the neck early Monday evening and remains hospitalized in ” critical conditions “. It all started with a vulgar discussion between a 40-year-old woman and the clerk over the fries she considered served cold, according to the newspaper citing police sources.
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The killer’s mother felt ridiculed
Feeling ridiculed by the McDonald’s staff for the temperature of her fries, the customer, who confided in the New York Post, then calls her son via video. The latter bursts into the restaurant, collides with the waiter before the two go to argue outside. The client’s son then brandished a firearm and shot the employee, according to police quoted by the newspaper. The New York Post published a photo of the victim shortly before the tragedy and another as he lay on the sidewalk, visibly hurt. The victim was unknown to the police and the judicial system, unlike his attacker who was arrested multiple times for various crimes and misdemeanors.
The proliferation of firearms in major US cities is a plague: there are nearly 400 million in the hands of the civilian population, or 120 weapons for every 100 people, according to the Small Arms Survey group, and more than 45,000 people were killed in the 2020 from these firearms, half by suicide according to the Gun Violence Archive association. In New York, the number of fatalities (deaths and injuries) from the shootings was 988 between January 1 and July 31, 2022 compared to 1,051 on the same date in 2021, according to weekly statistics from the NYPD.
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