Police in Missouri is looking for the shooter who shot a KFC worker because the restaurant was out of corn.
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Police in St. Louis is looking into a claim that a KFC employee was shot by a customer who was upset that the restaurant was out of corn.
The shooting occurred at the fast food restaurant in the city's Central West End shortly after 6 o'clock on Monday, according to an incident report from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
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Police said the 25-year-old male employee had been privately taken to the hospital after being shot in the abdomen.
According to investigators, the shooting suspect tried to order something through the drive-through lane of the restaurant.
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When he learned that the company was out of corn, he became angry and violent, according to the police. When he pulled up to the drive-thru window, the man was carrying a weapon.
When the injured worker returned to the restaurant after speaking with the driver outside, he claimed to have been shot, according to the police.
The report states that a 56-year-old woman who was also inside the store at the time of the shooting was unharmed. Police didn't receive any further injury reports.