Miami, United States.
A young employee of Burger King in Florida He was killed by a gunshot fired at him by a Hispanic man who was brought to the scene by a woman who complained about delaying her order, local media reported.
Desmond Armond Joshua, 22, who had started working at the restaurant just a few days earlier, died in the hospital where he was rushed to the hospital after the incident that occurred on Saturday, August 1, in Orange County, in central Florida, according to the area sheriff’s office.
That night the place was very busy and the clients they had to wait longer than usual to receive your orders, according to the local media.
A woman waiting for her food started to get angry and scream and came to threaten that he was going to call “her man” to fix the situation.
The staff saw her so upset that she gave the woman a $ 40 refund and asked her to leave.
He did so, but returned soon after with his “man”, later identified as Kelvis Rodríguez-Tormes, 37 years old.
The woman, whose identity has not been released, challenged Joshua to fight him.
The restaurant’s security cameras captured how Rodríguez-Tormes grabbed the employee by the head and tried to suffocate him until a person who was there managed to release him.
Rodríguez-Tormes he left the restaurant but went to his vehicle, took a pistol and returned.
Before opening fire he warned him: “You have two seconds before I shoot you.”
The Hispanic was arrested and charged with homicide in the first degree with a firearm, destruction of evidence (the weapon did not appear) and possession of a firearm by a person with a previous criminal conviction.
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