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A McDonald’s employee in New York City is reportedly in critical condition in the hospital with multiple stab wounds on Wednesday after attempting to intervene in an altercation at work.
Police reported to the scene in uptown Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood early that morning, when officers found the victim, a 31-year-old male McDonald’s employee, with “multiple stab wounds about the body,” according to a statement from the NYPD sent to PEOPLE.
NBC reported that the victim’s left a trail of blood in the McDonald’s establishment.
The assailant — a bearded man last seen wearing a dark green jacket and ski mask — is still at large, police said, and “the investigation remains ongoing.”
The brutal stabbing took place just one block away from where Burger King employeeKristal Bayron-Nieves was killedin January.
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On Jan. 9, the 19-year-old was allegedly shot when an assailant wearing a black ski mask walked into the fast-food restaurant in East Harlem at about 1 a.m., pointed a gun at her, and demanded money, the New York City Police Department said in a statement at the time.
She handed the masked gunman about $100, an eyewitness told the girl’s mother, theNew York Postreported.
After Bayron-Nieves handed the suspect the money, he allegedly shot her in the torso, the NYPD said in its statement.
She was rushed to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.
“She give him the money and everything,” family friend Nathalie Pagan told theDaily News. “She didn’t even do nothing wrong.”
source: people.com
