An employee at the pick-up window of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, was shot by a customer on December 12. The drive-through customer was upset because the restaurant had run out of corn.
The incident occurred around 6:30 pm. After making a threat to the employee through the speaker box, the shooter pulled up to the drive-thru window in the possession of a handgun. The 25-year-old employee stepped outside to speak with the driver. The worker returned to the restaurant bleeding from a gunshot wound.
The victim was hospitalized and in critical but stable condition. After the shooting, the suspect fled in his car.
Police described the assailant as a black man in his 40s or 50s with a slim body and a beard. He was last seen wearing a blue denim jacket with a gray sweatshirt. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is looking for the suspect.
It’s not the first time such an outrageous crime has happened this year.
In August, a similar incident happened in Brooklyn, New York when a customer shot a McDonald’s employee because of cold French fries. The incident began when a woman customer approached the employee, Matthew Webb, and started fighting with him because she was upset that her fries were cold.
The argument spilled onto the sidewalk outside the restaurant, and Webb was shot in the neck by the customer’s.
Gun violence in the US is an everyday occurrence. Schools, fast food places, malls, theaters and Walmarts are no longer the safe havens they once were. The list goes on.
