A Georgia woman is in custody after the owner of a McDonald’s in Garden City said she fired a gun inside the restaurant.
According to WTOC, a woman came back to the counter at the McDonald’s on August Drive in Garden City, Georgia, complaining her fries were cold. The manager went to the kitchen to get her a fresh serve of fries. The woman, however, followed the manager into the kitchen and fired a shot into the floor.
The woman left with a refund by the time police arrived at the scene, said the restaurant’s manager. The police soon stopped her car and arrested her without any incident, reported WTOC.
The Chatham County Jail’s booking record shows Garden City Police detained a 27-year-old woman named Lillian Shantel Tarver at around 3:00 p.m. on July 23. She is held on multiple charges including reckless driving, aggravated assault, battery, possession of a firearm during an attempt to commit certain felonies, and armed robbery.
Police told Newsweek that “Upon officers arriving on the scene they observed the suspect fleeing the scene in a black Nissan Altima,” said Detective Roberto Rodriguez of Garden City Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division. “Officers then engaged in a vehicle pursuit since the vehicle refused to stop.
“The suspect surrendered in the area of Fitzgerald Street, Savannah, Georgia. The suspect Lillian Tarver was apprehended. It was revealed through an investigation that the incident at McDonald’s was an armed robbery.”
Georgia woman is arrested after ‘firing a gun into the kitchen floor of a McDonald’s because her fries were cold’ https://t.co/tMc9JAOSgU
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In April, a California woman has been punished with jail time and community service hours for assaulting a McDonald’s manager after discovering there was not enough ketchup with her order.
24-year-old Mayra Berenice Gallo pleaded guilty to single counts of battery and intimidation of business or customers in an incident that happened at a McDonald’s at a Santa Ana in 2018, reported Fox News.
A surveillance video released by police shows the woman with her arms around the McDonald’s employee’s throat. https://t.co/Vo6wBScR1Z
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On October 27, 2018, Gallo ordered food through the drive-thru at the fast-food outlet. Police said an enraged Gallo stormed into the restaurant to confront the manager through the back door that was accidentally left open by another employee. She started pushing and choking the victim after being told she was not supposed to be in that area.
Gallo has been asked to enroll in an anger management class and was put on three years of informal probation.
Earlier this year, a woman climbed through a McDonald’s’ drive-through restaurant window in Pheonix, Arizona. She attacked a clerk and ran off with food, reported AZ Central.
The incident happened at the McDonald’s at 51st Avenue and McDowell on March 3rd.
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Surveillance footage shows the female suspect climb in through the drive-through window around 2:30 a.m. Once inside, the suspect assaulted a clerk, grabbed some food, and left without paying.
Police describe the suspect as a Hispanic woman between 25 and 35 years old, about 5 feet 4 inches tall and 160 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. She was wearing a yellow and gray jacket and gray pants at the time, police said.
