The restaurant’s out of corn? Bang-bang!

Nowadays people whip out a gun instead of “using their words.”

A man drove up to a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri on  December 12. He was informed by an employee,  Deon Thomas, through the drive-through speaker that the restaurant was out of corn. The man threatened the employee and then drove up to the pick-up window and apparently had his “words” with the employee at the window, and the employee left his station and approached the driver to talk. It is unclear why he left his station. It was a bad move.

The frustrated driver snapped and pulled out a gun, and shot the 25-year-old KFC employee. 

The victim was rushed to a hospital and was reportedly in critical but stable condition after surgery. 

After the shooting, the shooter 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 argument occurred in a Brooklyn, New York McDonald’s when a customer shot an employee because of cold French fries. The incident began when a woman customer approached the employee, Matthew Webb, 23, and started arguing with him because her fries were cold.

The argument spilled onto the sidewalk outside the restaurant, and Webb was shot in the neck by the customer’s son. Webb died two days later. 

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.