Union City police said a former McDonald’s employee shot a current employee in a confrontation Sunday evening.
Officers were called to the Jonesboro Road location just before 10 p.m. and found a man with a gunshot wound to the lower leg, police spokesman Officer Jerome Turner Jr. said. The man was stabilized and taken to a hospital.
The suspect is a former employee of the McDonald’s, Turner said. Investigators are still piecing together the details of what led up to the shooting, but the suspect is not in custody.
“Senseless would be the best descriptor for this act,” Turner said.
No other details about the victim or suspect have been released, but police have said there is no threat to the public at this time.
Sunday’s shooting is the latest in a rash of violence at McDonald’s restaurants across the Atlanta metro area in recent years.
In December, a couple were arrested after being accused of attacking a Locust Grove McDonald’s employee during a fight over a packet of Splenda.
A video posted to social media shows the pair sitting in a white car and arguing with an employee standing at the drive-thru window about having to go inside to get the sugar substitute, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. The fight escalated when the woman threw a drink at the employee. In the video, the employee appears to retaliate with her own thrown drink.
In January 2021, a man was shot and killed while in the drive-thru line at a DeKalb County McDonald’s at the intersection of Candler and McAfee roads. At the time, police did not release any details about the motive.
Seven months before that, in June 2019, a woman was shot in the face at an East Point McDonald’s. Channel 2 Action News reported the woman was an innocent bystander.
And in March 2019, a fight at a Decatur McDonald’s ended with an employee being taken to a hospital. Two customers were arguing with two employees at the Wesley Chapel Road location when one of the customers pulled out a gun.
Anyone with information about Sunday’s Union City incident is asked to call detectives at 770-964-1333.
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