Several Employees Shot on Job in Separate Incidents

Brooklyn, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Brooklyn McDonald’s worker is one of several employees shot at work this month after the son of a customer shot him over cold fries.  

Matthew Webb, 23, was working at a Brooklyn McDonald’s Aug. 1 when he was shot in the neck over a customer complaint. Webb “succumbed to his injuries” on Friday, representatives of the New York Police Department said. Police deemed the attack a homicide, and charged Michael Morgan, 20, with homicide charges.   

Officials said Webb was working at the fast food establishment when Morgan’s mother, Lisa Fulmore, complained to workers that her fries were cold and asked to speak to a manager. Fulmore, who was FaceTiming with Morgan at the time, said workers began laughing at her. At that point, Morgan came to the restaurant and got into a fight with Webb.   

When the fight moved outside to the sidewalk, Morgan punched Webb in the face, knocking him down. When Webb got back up, Morgan pulled out a gun and shot him in the neck, officials said.   

Fulmore allegedly told police her son told her “he gotta do what he gotta do.”  

Morgan’s girlfriend, Camellia Dunlap, was also charged with weapons possession for allegedly handing him the gun used to shoot Webb. Prosecutors said Dunlap admitted to possessing the gun. She was arraigned on Wednesday, and held on $50,000 cash bail.   

In Sacramento, Cal.if, a gas station employee died after she was shot in the gas station’s parking lot during the morning of Aug. 3.   

Sacramento police said they responded to the gas station just after 12:30 a.m. and found the woman in the parking lot. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene. Police confirmed she was a gas station employee, but no information has been released on what led up to the shooting, or who the suspect may be.   

In Kernersville, N.C., a manufacturing employee was shot and killed by a co-worker Aug. 2.   

The Forsyth County Sheriff’s office said Erik Bailey, 34, of Winston-Salem, got into a fight with a co-worker at the Clarios Manufacturing Facility around 1:15 p.m. Deputies said the two men knew each other and the fight escalated to a shooting.   

Bailey’s mother, Shauune Hall, of Winston-Salem, told the Winston-Salem Journal that officials relayed to her that Bailey and another employee got into an argument and the other employee spit in Bailey’s face. The situation became more heated and the employee at some point went to his truck, retrieved a handgun and shot Bailey in the chest, Hall said.   

Bailey died at the scene, officials said.   

The company said it was cooperating with investigators.   

"Our sincere condolences go out to our colleagues' families, friends and co-workers,” the company said in a statement. “Clarios is closely managing the facility and fully cooperating with authorities to ensure the continued safety and support of our employees, their families, and the surrounding community, as the investigation into the incident continues."  

Clarios has more than 500 employees, but deputies have not said how many may have seen the argument and the shooting.   

Officials in Atlanta, Ga., said an employee of an apartment complex is dead after a shootout between two buildings in the complex.   

Atlanta Police Department officials said they were called to the Columbia Commons apartments around 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 4 to investigate reports of shots being fired. When they weren’t able to find anything, they left.   

However, about an hour later they were called back to the scene for a report of a person laying on the ground.  

Officers then found the victim. He was dead from a gunshot. A spokesperson for the apartment complex said the victim was a member of their maintenance staff and was working when he got caught in the crossfire when a shootout broke out between two buildings on the property.   

Four people have been taken in for questioning, police said, but no charges had been filed as of Friday.   

And finally, in Seattle, Wash., an employee of the Seattle Tacoma Parks Department was cleaning restroom when she was approached by a woman holding a handgun.   

The employee said the woman was yelling for her kids, then fired several shots. The employee then called the police.   

When police arrived, the woman not only admitted to firing the shots, but told police that it is unlikely that she will stop carrying weapons, and that she carries them for personal protection. Police said that she is currently being charged with the unlawful possession of a firearm due to three past convictions in Yakima, second-degree theft in 2018, as well as third-degree assault and custodial assault in 2008.   

Officials said the woman is being held on $75,000 pending trial.