An employee of a McDonald’s restaurant in New York is on the verge of life or death after being shot in an altercation with a young man and his mother over some French fries, police and a newspaper in the megalopolis reported on Wednesday.
In a city where gunshots are daily, this new drama took place on Monday night in Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York. The city police (NYPD) have confirmed that a 20-year-old man is in custody and charged with “attempted murder” and “possession of a firearm.”
His 18-year-old companion is also detained and prosecuted for “possession of a firearm.”
Victim hospitalized in “critical condition”
According to the NYPD and the New York Post tabloid, a 23-year-old McDonald’s waiter was shot and seriously injured in the neck early Monday morning and remains hospitalized in “critical condition.”
It all started with a vulgar argument between a 40-year-old woman and the employee over French fries that she thought were served cold, according to the newspaper, citing police sources.
Feeling ridiculed by McDonald’s staff for the temperature of her fries, the customer, who confided in the New York Post, then calls his son by video. The latter bursts into the restaurant, bumping into the waiter before the two go outside to argue. The customer’s son then brandished a firearm and shot the employee, according to police quoted by the newspaper.
The proliferation of firearms in America’s major cities is a scourge: There are nearly 400 million in civilian hands, or 120 guns per 100 people, according to the Small Arms Survey, and more than 45,000 people have been killed. in 2020 for these firearms, half of them by suicide according to the Gun Violence Archive association.
In New York, the number of victims (dead and injured) from shootings stood at 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.
Source: BFM TV
