A person who went on a scary ax-swinging rampage at a Manhattan McDonald’s on Friday morning had flipped out after a younger lady “rejected” his advances, a witness mentioned.
Michael Palacios, 31, was arrested after cellphone video confirmed him grabbing an ax out of his backpack, destroying property and terrorizing prospects contained in the Delancey Avenue fast-food restaurant simply earlier than 2:30 a.m.
Ruben G, an Uber Eats supply man who witnessed the battle, advised The Publish the altercation started after Palacios was spurned by the unidentified lady.
“So mainly he obtained into an argument with a lady, after which the lady rejected him. She didn’t need to speak to him. He saved going at her…that’s when the fellows she was with stepped in and so they began arguing. All of it led to that,” Ruben mentioned.
“He was making an attempt to speak to her and no matter. He was asking for her quantity, the place she was from, and I assume she felt a way. She replied again in a sure method that she didn’t need to give an excessive amount of data and he saved pushing on.”
Alcohol additionally performed a task within the would-be pickup artist’s failure to impress the lady, in response to Ruben.
“He was drunk. He was speaking to me; I can odor the liquor off him,” mentioned the Uber Eats driver, who was again on the Decrease East Aspect McDonald’s once more Saturday night time
Palacios is seen in video footage taking punches from three males earlier than he calmly retrieves the ax, smashes a floor-to-ceiling glass panel and hacks up a number of tables and partitions.
He then slaps one of many males he was beforehand combating with out of his chair – and approaches a scared lady sitting at a desk to yell, “Don’t be afraid of me, be afraid of him!”
After the rampage, Palacios fled the scene on his bike however was picked up a short while later by police on close by Ludlow Avenue, the driving force mentioned.
“Bro, there was a glass right here and a glass there. He smashed each of them. He broke the desk in half with the ax.”
A employee on the eatery mentioned he had by no means seen the suspect earlier than, however he wasn’t shocked in regards to the violence, which he mentioned is “widespread within the space.”
The employee, who declined to offer his identify, mentioned the harm “was so much” and the scenario was above his paygrade.
“The upper ups can take care of that,” he quipped.
In the meantime, outdoors the McDonald’s location on Saturday night time, a ranting lady kicked over a rubbish can.
Palacios, a Bronx resident, was charged with prison mischief and three counts of menacing and two counts of prison possession of a weapon.
When reached for remark by The Publish, the suspect initially declined to speak earlier than bragging in regards to the hundreds of thousands of views the clip had generated on social media — the place he was being referred to as the “ax man.”
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