A young employee of a McDonald’s restaurant in Brooklyn (NYC) was shot in the face outside the fast food establishment after arguing with a customer.
The young man from 23 years I was working at the fast food restaurant in 1531 Fulton St. in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood, when he got into an argument with a female customer inside the restaurant yesterday around 7 pm, according to police sources.
Apparently the conflict began when the woman complained that her fries were cold, so she complained to the employee, Daily News detailed. The fight spread outside and the adult son The woman pulled out a gun and shot the worker in the face, the NYPD said.
The unidentified victim was rushed to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition. The police arrested a young man aged 20 at the scene, reported New York Post.
He was not the first fast food employee to suffer a violent attack at work in NYC this year. In March a customer was brutally beaten during a robbery at a McDonald’s in Midtown Manhattan. Also that month in another restaurant of that chain in East Harlem, the Hispanic employee Ángel Miguel Salazar (23) was stabbed.
That stabbing happened exactly two months later and a block from the “Burger King” restaurant where an alleged former employee returned to steal and fatally shot the worker at years Krystal Bayron Nieves.
In NYC, armed violence continues unleashed in 2022, especially with young attackers and perpetrators, posing a great challenge to the new mayor Eric Adams, who since taking office in January has encountered obstacles within his own Democratic party and Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders in dealing with the crisis.
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