United States: McDonald’s employee killed for serving French fries

An employee of a local McDonald’s chain in Brooklyn, New York, died this Friday after a man shot him last Monday. during a dispute over some friesaccording to the authorities.

Matthew Webb, 23, was shot in the neck by Michael Morgan, 20, charged with attempted murder and possession of guns in a case that will now be treated as murder, police told reporters to media and reproduces the agency. EFE print.

The dispute that turned out to be deadly occurred on Monday when Morgan’s mother, who had ordered food from the place, went to complain to employees that her fries were cold during a video call with her son.

Morgan allegedly saw that the employees laughed at his mother and went to McDonald’s, where he got into a fight with Webb and the fight escalated to the point of moving to the doors of the restaurant, reports the local newspaper. The New York Post.

already on the street, Morgan hit Webb in the face and then shot him in the neck.which left the young man brain dead, according to authorities.

The aggressor, who he had a criminal history with more than a dozen arrestsbe charged with manslaughter, prosecutors told a judge Thursday even before Webb’s death.

In addition, according to ABC7, Morgan confessed to police an unsolved murder and was charged with the death of a 28-year-old man in the restaurant area in 2020.

In recent months, there have been other cases of violence against employees of the fast food chain in New York: a stabbing by a customer in May and a murder during an armed robbery in January, both in the Harlem neighborhood.

With over 400 million guns in the hands of the US population – 120 weapons per 100 people, according to the NGO Small Arms Survey – the proliferation of firearms in large US cities is an unsolvable problem for Joe Biden’s government.

More than 45,000 people lost their lives in 2020 from firearms, half by suicide, according to the Gun Violence Archive association.

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