Senseless violence
18 Jul 1984 James Oliver Huberty opens fire at a San Ysidro McDonald's, leaving 20 dead and 16 wounded. He held off police for an hour, sometimes taking time to finish off victims already wounded. A witness reported Huberty, a recently dismissed security guard, as saying that he'd "killed many people in Vietnam and wanted to kill more."
26 Sep 1984 A work crew destroys the San Ysidro McDonald's. It is later converted into a neighborhood park.
10 Aug 1993 Dion Terres kills two and wounds a third with a .44 Magnum revolver in a Kenosha, Wisconsin McDonald's.
1 Jun 1996 A man with a shotgun in northern Australia shoots up a house, a police station, and a four SWAT team officers near a McDonald's restaurant.
24 Jun 1996 A university student gives birth in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Tukwila, Washington. She then dumps the baby in a garbage can and cleans up in the McDonald's restroom. The woman is arrested later that day on campus.
Dec 1996 One person is shot to death and two others injured when a former McDonald's goes postal at his old jobsite in Vallejo, California.
27 Feb 1997 Shawn Michael Demers allegedly shoots a mother and child at a McDonald's in Lakeland, Florida.
8 Jun 1997 A mother is shot to death in front of her children outside a McDonald's in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
16 Jun 1997 A 9-year-old girl is shot to death during an armed robbery at a McDonald's in Barstow, California.
Mar 1999 Miguel Cano shoots at Ismael Ramos Jr. inside a Las Vegas McDonald's, accidentally killing bystander Crystal Lee Ledesma.
14 Feb 2000 Three teenagers accidentally set a Houston, Texas McDonalds on fire while trying to cut open its safe with a blowtorch. Two firefighters are killed trying to extinguish the blaze. Allen Jerome Davis, Juan M. Torres, and Pedro Isreal Loredo are later charged with two counts of felony murder.
1 Mar 2000 In Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Ronald Taylor goes on a shooting spree, starting his rampage at an apartment complex, then continuing on to a local Burger King and a McDonald's.
19 Apr 2000 A dynamite bomb explodes at a McDonald's in Dinan, France. One employee is killed by the blast.
28 Jun 2000 Willis Lee, janitor at a McDonald's in Houston, Texas, shoots two armed robbers while they are holding up the restaurant.
5 Jul 2000 Zsolt B. shoots up a McDonald's in Budapest, killing one person and wounding three.
14 Dec 2000 Seven soldiers from Fort Carson allegedly rob a McDonald's in Fountain, Colorado. They are arrested at the base a four hours later.
25 Mar 2001 In Richmond, California, Khante "Kiki" Johnson allegedly stabs her boyfriend in the heart with a steak knife, killing him. Japaicka "Pecka" Colon had returned from McDonald's with a ham, egg, and cheese bagel and coffee instead of the two sausage McMuffins and orange juice she requested.
9 May 2001 A 23-year-old man is shot to death outside a McDonald's in San Francisco.
10 May 2001 A 50-year-old woman is shot to death outside a McDonald's in St. Petersburg, Florida.
28 May 2001 After receiving some cold french fries, a disgruntled customer in Orlando, Florida shoots out the front window of the responsible McDonald's with a BB gun.
6 Jun 2001 Employee Genoveva Velasquez is shot five times in the McDonald's parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland. Her alleged killer, boyfriend Michael Alfonso, is arrested in Mexico three years later.
Sep 2001 A bomb explodes inside an Istanbul McDonald's, injuring one person in the leg.
15 Dec 2001 A suicide bomber strikes a two-story McDonald's in Xi'an, China, killing two and injuring 26.
1 Apr 2002 Students rioting near Cairo University vent their frustration against the local McDonald's franchise.
15 May 2002 Believing it to be empty at 4:20am, Frank Nastasi crashes his Cadillac into a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Ephraim, New Jersey, killing three female employees. Shortly before his excursion, Nastasi sent an email to a friend saying: "John Nash, there is no way to save it, you are right it would take a miracle, think and John Lennon and Yoko, Occam's razor, Catch 22, too imaginable."
14 Jul 2002 In the parking lot of a McDonald's franchise in London, two men are shot and stabbed by a group of black males.
23 Sep 2002 A car bomb explodes in a McDonald's parking lot in Jounieh, Lebanon.
11 Oct 2002 An ammonium nitrate bomb explodes in front of a McDonald's in Vantaa, Finland. The blast kills seven.
19 Oct 2002 A car bomb explodes behind a McDonald's franchise in Moscow, killing one and injuring at least seven.
25 Oct 2002 A pair of deer jumps through the plate glass window at a McDonald's franchise in Washington, D.C., injuring four women.
Nov 2002 A gunman threatens a McDonald's employee at a franchise in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, then sets fire to the restaurant.
5 Dec 2002 A bomb explodes inside a McDonald's in Makassar, Indonesia, killing three.
6 Dec 2002 An explosion at a Bombay McDonald's injures 17. Officials later claim it was just a faulty air conditioner.
1 Feb 2003 Istanbul police manage to defuse a time bomb left inside a two-story suburban McDonald's.
22 Feb 2003 Angry that his take-out order was lacking two hamburgers, Danny Thomas returns to the McDonald's in Portland, Oregon and jabs a ball-point pen into manager Antonio Mapapalangi's left cheekbone. Then Thomas goes to his 1996 Infiniti and uses his Taurus .357 Magnum revolver to fire six rounds into the drive-through window. He later receives a 13-year sentence.
25 Feb 2003 A man tosses an unlit molotov cocktail into a McDonald's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
22 Mar 2003 A grenade explodes in an empty McDonald's near Athens, Greece.
Apr 2003 The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front sets off a bomb at a McDonald's in Istanbul.
5 Apr 2003 A stick of dynamite explodes in the bathroom of a crowded McDonald's in Beirut, Lebanon, injuring three people. Simultaneously, a car bomb in front of the restaurant malfunctions, breaking only the rear windshield.
23 Apr 2003 At a McDonald's parking lot in Houston, Waynetta Nolan runs down the restaurant manager in a hit-and-run because her request for mayo on her cheeseburger was initially refused. Nolan receives 10 years in prison for the crime.
17 May 2003 At a McDonald's in Germantown, Maryland, Milika L. Hayes allegedly smashes fistfuls of hot fries into the face of a 4-year-old boy after he accidentally brushed against her shirt with his ice cream cone. She is arrested by police and charged with first-degree assault and disorderly conduct.
15 Jun 2003 A bomb explodes at a McDonald's restaurant in Xi'an, China. Xu Yonggang is later arrested and charged with the crime.
Jul 2003 In Muncy, Pennsylvania, McDonald's manager Danielle S. Baum takes a rifle from her truck and kills a feral cat in the parking lot. She later pleads guilty to animal cruelty and pays a $375 fine.
6 Sep 2003 Herbert Butler allegedly kills his wife, then drives a McDonald's in Johns Island, South Carolina and shoots employee Christopher Simmons in the chest.
1 Oct 2003 In the bathroom of Columbus, Ohio McDonald's, Larry T. Scott allegedly shoots Charles Mintun twice in the chest.
18 Oct 2003 During an argument at a McDonald's in the south side of Chicago, an unidentified 27-year-old man brandishes a gun at a female employee. He is later shot by police a few blocks away.
29 Oct 2003 A man walks up to the drive-thru window at an Atlanta McDonald's and shoots employee Carl Goodman three times.
31 Oct 2003 A former employee crashes his car into a McDonald's training center in Amsterdam.
12 Nov 2003 Two men suffer gunshot wounds to the leg in a possibly-gang-related shooting outside a McDonald's in north Minneapolis.
25 Nov 2003 An off-duty Chicago police officer shoots and kills 21-year-old Steven Curry, an unarmed man, outside a McDonald's in Hyde Park.
27 Nov 2003 After kicking out all the employees and customers, Donald Jaworowicz stages an eight-hour armed standoff at a McDonald's in Springville, Utah.
1 Dec 2003 An 18-year-old man sitting in the drive-thru of a Madison, Wisconsin McDonald's is struck by a shotgun blast delivered by a minivan which had pulled alongside him.
5 Dec 2003 60-year-old Mary VanDosen is killed by a runaway vehicle after its driver suffered a seizure and plowed into a McDonald's parking lot in Sturgis, Michigan.
10 Dec 2003 Robert Crawford is shot and killed outside a Phildelphia McDonald's.
13 Dec 2003 Sitting in a McDonald's drive-thru in Mission Hills, California, Sergio Ernesto Reyes is shot dead in his truck waiting for his order.
20 Dec 2003 Caltone Cockrell is arrested for allegedly shooting Zahmall Davis at a McDonald's drive-thru in Madison, Wisconsin.
13 Feb 2004 One man is shot dead during a heated argument in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Riverdale, Maryland.
24 Apr 2004 Around 10pm, Raymond Lewis Young II allegedly shoots two men in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Greenville, South Carolina.
7 May 2004 Sometime before dawn, an alleged auto thief is killed when he crashes his stolen car into the McDonald's drive-thru in Riverdale Park, Maryland.
12 Jun 2004 During his son's birthday party at a McDonald's in Selma, Alabama, Lorenzo Walker allegedly whips out a pistol and fires eight shots, twice wounding his girlfriend's pregnant sister Latoya Powell.
22 Aug 2004 The Tampa Bay Area Bomb Squad safely detonates a pipe bomb discovered earlier that night in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Port Richey, Florida.
14 Oct 2004 Jason Eric Steif is shot to death at a McDonald's in Reading, Pennsylvania while sitting in the drive-thru.
24 Oct 2004 A bomb explodes outside a McDonald's in Trabzon, Turkey, injuring six people.
21 Jan 2005 During an alleged armed robbery at the McDonald's on Paradise Road in Las Vegas, Charles Anthony Walker allegedly shoots to death 49-year-old conventioneer Thomas Latimer.
8 Feb 2005 In Rockford, Illinois an unidentified gunman in a Pontiac four-door drives up to the McDonald's on Auburn Street and fires three shots into a dining-room window. A few diners are injured by shards of glass.
18 Jul 1984 James Oliver Huberty opens fire at a San Ysidro McDonald's, leaving 20 dead and 16 wounded. He held off police for an hour, sometimes taking time to finish off victims already wounded. A witness reported Huberty, a recently dismissed security guard, as saying that he'd "killed many people in Vietnam and wanted to kill more."
26 Sep 1984 A work crew destroys the San Ysidro McDonald's. It is later converted into a neighborhood park.
10 Aug 1993 Dion Terres kills two and wounds a third with a .44 Magnum revolver in a Kenosha, Wisconsin McDonald's.
1 Jun 1996 A man with a shotgun in northern Australia shoots up a house, a police station, and a four SWAT team officers near a McDonald's restaurant.
24 Jun 1996 A university student gives birth in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Tukwila, Washington. She then dumps the baby in a garbage can and cleans up in the McDonald's restroom. The woman is arrested later that day on campus.
Dec 1996 One person is shot to death and two others injured when a former McDonald's goes postal at his old jobsite in Vallejo, California.
27 Feb 1997 Shawn Michael Demers allegedly shoots a mother and child at a McDonald's in Lakeland, Florida.
8 Jun 1997 A mother is shot to death in front of her children outside a McDonald's in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
16 Jun 1997 A 9-year-old girl is shot to death during an armed robbery at a McDonald's in Barstow, California.
Mar 1999 Miguel Cano shoots at Ismael Ramos Jr. inside a Las Vegas McDonald's, accidentally killing bystander Crystal Lee Ledesma.
14 Feb 2000 Three teenagers accidentally set a Houston, Texas McDonalds on fire while trying to cut open its safe with a blowtorch. Two firefighters are killed trying to extinguish the blaze. Allen Jerome Davis, Juan M. Torres, and Pedro Isreal Loredo are later charged with two counts of felony murder.
1 Mar 2000 In Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Ronald Taylor goes on a shooting spree, starting his rampage at an apartment complex, then continuing on to a local Burger King and a McDonald's.
19 Apr 2000 A dynamite bomb explodes at a McDonald's in Dinan, France. One employee is killed by the blast.
28 Jun 2000 Willis Lee, janitor at a McDonald's in Houston, Texas, shoots two armed robbers while they are holding up the restaurant.
5 Jul 2000 Zsolt B. shoots up a McDonald's in Budapest, killing one person and wounding three.
14 Dec 2000 Seven soldiers from Fort Carson allegedly rob a McDonald's in Fountain, Colorado. They are arrested at the base a four hours later.
25 Mar 2001 In Richmond, California, Khante "Kiki" Johnson allegedly stabs her boyfriend in the heart with a steak knife, killing him. Japaicka "Pecka" Colon had returned from McDonald's with a ham, egg, and cheese bagel and coffee instead of the two sausage McMuffins and orange juice she requested.
9 May 2001 A 23-year-old man is shot to death outside a McDonald's in San Francisco.
10 May 2001 A 50-year-old woman is shot to death outside a McDonald's in St. Petersburg, Florida.
28 May 2001 After receiving some cold french fries, a disgruntled customer in Orlando, Florida shoots out the front window of the responsible McDonald's with a BB gun.
6 Jun 2001 Employee Genoveva Velasquez is shot five times in the McDonald's parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland. Her alleged killer, boyfriend Michael Alfonso, is arrested in Mexico three years later.
Sep 2001 A bomb explodes inside an Istanbul McDonald's, injuring one person in the leg.
15 Dec 2001 A suicide bomber strikes a two-story McDonald's in Xi'an, China, killing two and injuring 26.
1 Apr 2002 Students rioting near Cairo University vent their frustration against the local McDonald's franchise.
15 May 2002 Believing it to be empty at 4:20am, Frank Nastasi crashes his Cadillac into a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Ephraim, New Jersey, killing three female employees. Shortly before his excursion, Nastasi sent an email to a friend saying: "John Nash, there is no way to save it, you are right it would take a miracle, think and John Lennon and Yoko, Occam's razor, Catch 22, too imaginable."
14 Jul 2002 In the parking lot of a McDonald's franchise in London, two men are shot and stabbed by a group of black males.
23 Sep 2002 A car bomb explodes in a McDonald's parking lot in Jounieh, Lebanon.
11 Oct 2002 An ammonium nitrate bomb explodes in front of a McDonald's in Vantaa, Finland. The blast kills seven.
19 Oct 2002 A car bomb explodes behind a McDonald's franchise in Moscow, killing one and injuring at least seven.
25 Oct 2002 A pair of deer jumps through the plate glass window at a McDonald's franchise in Washington, D.C., injuring four women.
Nov 2002 A gunman threatens a McDonald's employee at a franchise in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, then sets fire to the restaurant.
5 Dec 2002 A bomb explodes inside a McDonald's in Makassar, Indonesia, killing three.
6 Dec 2002 An explosion at a Bombay McDonald's injures 17. Officials later claim it was just a faulty air conditioner.
1 Feb 2003 Istanbul police manage to defuse a time bomb left inside a two-story suburban McDonald's.
22 Feb 2003 Angry that his take-out order was lacking two hamburgers, Danny Thomas returns to the McDonald's in Portland, Oregon and jabs a ball-point pen into manager Antonio Mapapalangi's left cheekbone. Then Thomas goes to his 1996 Infiniti and uses his Taurus .357 Magnum revolver to fire six rounds into the drive-through window. He later receives a 13-year sentence.
25 Feb 2003 A man tosses an unlit molotov cocktail into a McDonald's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
22 Mar 2003 A grenade explodes in an empty McDonald's near Athens, Greece.
Apr 2003 The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front sets off a bomb at a McDonald's in Istanbul.
5 Apr 2003 A stick of dynamite explodes in the bathroom of a crowded McDonald's in Beirut, Lebanon, injuring three people. Simultaneously, a car bomb in front of the restaurant malfunctions, breaking only the rear windshield.
23 Apr 2003 At a McDonald's parking lot in Houston, Waynetta Nolan runs down the restaurant manager in a hit-and-run because her request for mayo on her cheeseburger was initially refused. Nolan receives 10 years in prison for the crime.
17 May 2003 At a McDonald's in Germantown, Maryland, Milika L. Hayes allegedly smashes fistfuls of hot fries into the face of a 4-year-old boy after he accidentally brushed against her shirt with his ice cream cone. She is arrested by police and charged with first-degree assault and disorderly conduct.
15 Jun 2003 A bomb explodes at a McDonald's restaurant in Xi'an, China. Xu Yonggang is later arrested and charged with the crime.
Jul 2003 In Muncy, Pennsylvania, McDonald's manager Danielle S. Baum takes a rifle from her truck and kills a feral cat in the parking lot. She later pleads guilty to animal cruelty and pays a $375 fine.
6 Sep 2003 Herbert Butler allegedly kills his wife, then drives a McDonald's in Johns Island, South Carolina and shoots employee Christopher Simmons in the chest.
1 Oct 2003 In the bathroom of Columbus, Ohio McDonald's, Larry T. Scott allegedly shoots Charles Mintun twice in the chest.
18 Oct 2003 During an argument at a McDonald's in the south side of Chicago, an unidentified 27-year-old man brandishes a gun at a female employee. He is later shot by police a few blocks away.
29 Oct 2003 A man walks up to the drive-thru window at an Atlanta McDonald's and shoots employee Carl Goodman three times.
31 Oct 2003 A former employee crashes his car into a McDonald's training center in Amsterdam.
12 Nov 2003 Two men suffer gunshot wounds to the leg in a possibly-gang-related shooting outside a McDonald's in north Minneapolis.
25 Nov 2003 An off-duty Chicago police officer shoots and kills 21-year-old Steven Curry, an unarmed man, outside a McDonald's in Hyde Park.
27 Nov 2003 After kicking out all the employees and customers, Donald Jaworowicz stages an eight-hour armed standoff at a McDonald's in Springville, Utah.
1 Dec 2003 An 18-year-old man sitting in the drive-thru of a Madison, Wisconsin McDonald's is struck by a shotgun blast delivered by a minivan which had pulled alongside him.
5 Dec 2003 60-year-old Mary VanDosen is killed by a runaway vehicle after its driver suffered a seizure and plowed into a McDonald's parking lot in Sturgis, Michigan.
10 Dec 2003 Robert Crawford is shot and killed outside a Phildelphia McDonald's.
13 Dec 2003 Sitting in a McDonald's drive-thru in Mission Hills, California, Sergio Ernesto Reyes is shot dead in his truck waiting for his order.
20 Dec 2003 Caltone Cockrell is arrested for allegedly shooting Zahmall Davis at a McDonald's drive-thru in Madison, Wisconsin.
13 Feb 2004 One man is shot dead during a heated argument in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Riverdale, Maryland.
24 Apr 2004 Around 10pm, Raymond Lewis Young II allegedly shoots two men in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Greenville, South Carolina.
7 May 2004 Sometime before dawn, an alleged auto thief is killed when he crashes his stolen car into the McDonald's drive-thru in Riverdale Park, Maryland.
12 Jun 2004 During his son's birthday party at a McDonald's in Selma, Alabama, Lorenzo Walker allegedly whips out a pistol and fires eight shots, twice wounding his girlfriend's pregnant sister Latoya Powell.
22 Aug 2004 The Tampa Bay Area Bomb Squad safely detonates a pipe bomb discovered earlier that night in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Port Richey, Florida.
14 Oct 2004 Jason Eric Steif is shot to death at a McDonald's in Reading, Pennsylvania while sitting in the drive-thru.
24 Oct 2004 A bomb explodes outside a McDonald's in Trabzon, Turkey, injuring six people.
21 Jan 2005 During an alleged armed robbery at the McDonald's on Paradise Road in Las Vegas, Charles Anthony Walker allegedly shoots to death 49-year-old conventioneer Thomas Latimer.
8 Feb 2005 In Rockford, Illinois an unidentified gunman in a Pontiac four-door drives up to the McDonald's on Auburn Street and fires three shots into a dining-room window. A few diners are injured by shards of glass.
