Disturbance Over Soft Drink Leads To Shooting At McDonald’s

Photo by Thomas Honeycutt

SELMA – Selma Police are investigating a disturbance at McDonald’s at 335 US Highway 70 East that resulted in the shooting of one person.

Police responded to McDonald’s around 8:25pm Thursday. Investigators located one person suffering from a gunshot wound. They were transported to the hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

As many as four other people sustained minor injuries during an physical altercation inside.

Police believe the incident began during a dispute between a customer and employee over the size of a soft drink ordered at the drive-thru. The altercation escalated inside the restaurant where multiple people became involved.

Photo by Thomas Honeycutt

During the disturbance, a gunshot was fired and a male, who was in a relationship with an employee, was shot.

Police obtained warrants against four suspects. As of Friday afternoon, two of the four individuals were in custody. Officers are withholding the names of the suspects until all four individuals are in custody.

Detectives believe the incident all started because a customer allegedly felt they were given the incorrect soft drink cup size with a drive thru order.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Selma Police Detective Sergeant J. Vause at 919-965-8189.

30 COMMENTS

  1. And just as the days of Noah were, so shall it be again when the Son of Man comes. Matthew 24:37, Luke 17:26

    • There’s so many videos on the internet of people flipping out at fast food restaurants. Over the most mundane things.

  2. Lmaooooooooooooooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣not over a soft drink mam listen 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀joco what happened 🤣I guess we got tired of being them country fellas and catch up to wake and Durham County 😭

  3. This is crazy. It’s insane that we have to worry about stuff like this happening when we go in public. My grandparents, aunt and 3 year old nephew live within 120 seconds of this restaurant and shouldn’t have to worry about something like this happening if they take my nephew to get a happy meal.

    • Well I think it’s the other way around… The timeout generation has hit the streets, y’all made it law they can’t whoop on them kids, and if they would have got whooped like we did… Whole nother outcome

      • This is so true. A swat on the butt want kill your child. I got switching just about everyday growing up. I’ve made it to 70. I’m glad my parents held me accountable when I did wrong.

  4. This is sickening! In prison there are no guns ! And you definitely can’t pick and choose the size of your drink !

  5. They should of went to Burger King and had it their way. Thugs are raised with zero respect, morals and values. Perfect example parenting failure. That’s the problem with these punks, they don’t care about anyone in their wrath, this is why majority end up in prison because BOTH parents failed them.

  6. Why didn’t the McDonald’s employee just give them the drink instead of letting it escalate to that level though? It’s not like it’s coming out of their check. I’m not defending the actions of the dummies that took it that far but that employee sounds like they would lay down their life over 50 cent to an employer that would replace them tomorrow. There’s got to be more to this story.

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