The employee of a Wendy’s restaurant in Brooklyn (NYC) was seriously injured after being stabbed in the chest last night by a co-worker.
According to the police, the victim of 44 years old argued with her attacker inside the fast food joint on Ditmas Ave. near Remsen Ave., East Flatbush neighborhood, around 7: 40 pm The verbal fight turned violent when the assailant stabbed the man with an “unknown weapon,” he said NYPD.
The reason for the dispute is not clear. The suspect fled still wearing his Wendy’s uniform. The injured man was rushed to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition, reported Daily News.
Assemblywoman Monique Chandler-Waterman, who represents that district, appeared on the scene, where she said that addressing violence issues requires more youth programs and resources , especially for housing, in the community. “It’s traumatizing… whether you’re a victim or not, just seeing it, hearing it, me coming here, it’s traumatizing because this is not normal,” he told Pix19.
Police later caught suspected attacker David Lamont, of 43 years, updated amNY this morning . He was still in his work uniform when he was charged with attempted murder and threats
“Whether you are a victim or not, just seeing it, hearing it, is traumatizing because this is not normal”Assemblywoman Monique Chandler- Waterman
This year there have been several fatal incidents inside fast food restaurants in New York. In early August, a 23 year old McDonald’s worker was shot in the neck in Brooklyn and He passed away after spending three days brain dead and on life support. The son of a client who had complained because his fries were cold was arrested as a suspect, according to witnesses.
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) he 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 19 years old Krystal Bayron Nieves in January.