McDonald's Worker Shot Over Cold French Fries, In Critical Condition

New York City -- A 20-year-old man shot a fast-food worker in Brooklyn, New York, earlier this week after the assailant's mother received cold french fries, according to police.

The 23-year-old victim, whose name was not disclosed, was working at the McDonald's branch at 1531 Fulton Street in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood at around 7 p.m. Monday when a female customer hassled him over her french fries, an unnamed "high-ranking" police source told the New York Post.

"I asked [an employee] to change the french fries because the fries [were] cold. She went to the french fry machine for maybe 10 seconds and brought back fries, so I thought they [were] new fries, so I had left," the woman, identified as 40-year-old Lisa Fulmore, told the outlet Tuesday.

"So I taste the fries, and after I got to the third one, it was a cold fry still. So I went back to take the food back," she added.

Fulmore allegedly asked a female McDonald's worker why she had given her the same fries, but all of the employees "started laughing, acting like it's funny."

She then argued with the worker who was later shot.

When Fulmore asked to speak to the boss, the workers allegedly said the manager had stepped out and they started laughing again, she claimed.

Fulmore's son, who was on a FaceTime call with her during the encounter, heard the dispute and later came to the restaurant. He then took out a gun and shot the victim, police said.

The shooting was caught on surveillance video, unnamed sources told New York Post. A man cradled the wounded worker as blood spilled on the sidewalk, photos and footage of the incident showed.

The victim remained in extremely critical condition at Brookdale Hospital as of Tuesday, according to the outlet's sources.

Meanwhile, the suspected shooter was taken into custody, and a single spent 9mm casing was recovered at the scene, police said. No charges have been filed.

Fulmore was allegedly "in shock" following the shooting. She provided police with information and admitted to authorities that she had called her son, one of the witnesses told the news outlet.

The suspected shooter had been arrested several times in the past, including for grand larceny in 2019, as well as assault and theft of service in the year before that, sources told New York Post. He reportedly also has numerous sealed arrest cases against him.

The McDonald's branch where the incident occurred had cut security in June, according to one of the victim's coworkers.

"We don't know why. They don't tell us anything," the employee, who described the victim as a "good guy," told the outlet.

McDonald's did not immediately return a request for comment from the outlet.