Authorities are investigating a Florida McDonald’s shooting that occurred early Saturday morning after a dispute over wait times in the drive-thru escalated inside the restaurant.
According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, the incident began around 3 a.m. on October 12 at a Davenport location. Twenty-one-year-old employee Yoan Soto was working an overnight shift when two customers—19-year-old Peter Story and 18-year-old Nicholas Jones—became upset over the delay caused by a high volume of online orders.
Soto apologized to the pair for the wait, but the two allegedly began threatening him, telling him they would wait until his shift ended to physically harm him. “They threatened to attack the man who just told them, ‘We’re busy, we can’t take any more orders,’ and he did that because the manager told him to,” Sheriff Judd said, calling the situation a “McMess.”