‘I thought he was an employee’ – McDonald’s witnesspublished at 20:51 Greenwich Mean Time
Jessica Parker
BBC News, Altoona, Pennsylvania
A witness at the McDonald’s restaurant where suspect Luigi Mangione was arrested on Monday has told the BBC he thought his friend was joking around when he pointed out the likeness between a patron and the alleged gunman.
“I thought he was kidding. You know what I mean?” says Larry, who reported the suspect before his arrest at the restaurant in Pennsylvania.
Larry, who declined to give his last name, said he had gone to the McDonald’s in the town of Altoona for a coffee with a group of “five or six” friends before attending church.
He said his friends noticed Mangione in the restaurant, when he ordered and took a seat in the back.
Asked for his thoughts on one of the most-wanted suspects in the US being arrested at his local fast-food restaurant, Larry said he was “a little bit surprised”.
“But I’m not really surprised, you know?,” he added.
“I mean, the way the world is right now, it’s pretty crazy.”
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