THE McDonald’s worker who was allegedly shot in the neck by a customer in an outburst over cold fries has died, police said.
Mathew Webb, 23, died due to his injuries after he was shot on Monday outside the McDonald’s in Brooklyn, New York, where he worked, the NYPD said.
Michael Morgan, 20, has been charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the shooting, said the cops.
He is expected to face upgraded homicide charges, prosecutors told the court on Thursday, even before Webb’s death was confirmed, reported the New York Post.
His mom reportedly later told the police that her son said: “he gotta what he gotta do.”
The suspect’s girlfriend, Camellia Dunlap, has also been charged with weapons possession for allegedly handing Morgan the gun.
She was arraigned later on Wednesday and held on $50,000 cash bail after prosecutors said she admitted to possessing the gun, the Post reported.
The shooting happened at 7pm on Monday after Morgan’s mom, Lisa Fulmore, supposedly complained to workers that her fries were cold and asked to speak to a manager.
The apparent argument spilled out into the street, and the woman’s son allegedly pulled out a gun at the storefront and shot the employee, hitting him in the neck above his jawline.
Authorities told The Post that the victim was taken to Brookdale Hospital for treatment of his critical wounds.
A witness told Daily News: “In McDonald’s, they had an argument over French fries … He was hard-working. He was defending his co-workers.”
The witness recalled seeing a man strip off his shirt from his body to use it to stop the victim’s bleeding.
Video of the victim showed his head being gently held by a witness while his blood pooled on the sidewalk.
It is not the first horrific scene of violence at a McDonald’s franchise recently.
A child was critically injured during a shooting in a McDonald’s parking lot in Memphis that allegedly erupted over road rage.
And in Midvale, Utah, a four-year-old fired a gun at police inside a McDonald’s, officials said.
Witnesses at the scene claimed that they heard the father tell the child to shoot while he was being arrested.