NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- A McDonald’s employee was fighting for his life Tuesday after being shot in the neck and critically wounded in Brooklyn on Monday evening.
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The 23-year-old victim was working at the McDonald’s location at 1531 Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly before 7 p.m. when a woman got into a dispute with him over a food purchase, police said.
During the argument, the woman called her 20-year-old son to come to the restaurant. The argument was over cold French fries, a police source told the New York Post.
At some point, the employee went outside, where the son pulled out a firearm and shot him in the neck, just below the jawbone.
The employee remained in critical condition Tuesday morning at Interfaith Medical Center, police said.
The employee was gravely wounded and remained in critical condition Tuesday morning at Brookdale Hospital, police said.
The suspected shooter was apprehended nearby following a canvass of the area, according to police.
Charges against him are pending as police “see what happens with the victim,” but “it doesn’t sound good,” a law enforcement source told 1010 WINS.
It’s the latest incident of a fast-food worker being attacked on the job in the city this year.
In January, a 19-year-old Burger King employee, Kristal Bayron-Nieves, was shot and killed during a robbery in East Harlem. A man was soon arrested and charged with murder.
And in March, a 31-year-old employee at a McDonald’s in East Harlem was stabbed and critically injured by an unruly customer. A suspect was also charged in that assault.
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