Thursday 4 August 2022 10:34 PM McDonald's worker shot over COLD fries is brain-dead and accused gunman is ... trends now
A Brooklyn man accused of shooting a McDonald's employee in the neck during an argument over cold fries is being held without bail and will likely face murder charges after the victim was declared brain-dead following Monday's shooting.
Michael Morgan, 20, kept his eyes down and didn't speak as he was arraigned on Thursday for the attempted murder of fast food joint worker Matthew Webb, 23, who remains on life support.
Assistant District Attorney Luis Paternina said upgraded charges are likely against Morgan, who is being held without bail pending another court appearance next week.
Morgan was also arraigned in a separate October 2020 murder that he reportedly confessed to earlier this week.
That murder happened just six blocks away from where Webb was shot outside a McDonald's in Bedford-Stuyvesant following a heated spat with the suspect's mother who was complaining about cold French fries.
Video surveillance reportedly shows Morgan punching Webb in the face, and when the worker tried to get up, he shoots him in the neck before fleeing the scene, and attempting to dispose of his clothing, prosecutors alleged.
McDonald's employee Matthew Webb, 23, is brain dead after he was shot in the neck during a confrontation over cold fries in Brooklyn on Monday. The suspect's mother Lisa Fulmore snapped this picture of Webb minutes before he was allegedly shot by her son Michael Morgan
Michael Morgan, 20, was taken into custody shortly after the Monday evening shooting outside a Brooklyn McDonald's that left 23-year-old Matthew Webb bleeding on a nearby sidewalk (pictured)
Morgan was taken into custody Monday night. His girlfriend, Camellia Dunlap, has also been charged in connection with the case after she allegedly handed Morgan the gun prior to the shooting, prosecutors said.
Webb, 23, who was found lying on the sidewalk after being shot, blood streaming into the street, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and has since been declared brain dead. He remains on life support at this time.
'Your Honor, the people anticipate a homicide charge on this case given the victim is currently on life support,' Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Luis Paternina told Judge Inga O'Neale during Morgan's arraignment.
'The victim has been transported to Brookdale Hospital and has been brain-dead. The family now has to make the difficult decision [to take him off life support].'
Webb's devastated mother spoke to the New York Post outside Brooklyn's Brookdale Hospital.
'I'm really not ready for this,' she said. 'I'm just going back and forth with so many flashes in mind. My mind is not stable.'
Morgan is facing upgraded charges after Webb was declared brain dead and has also been charged with murder in relation to killing in October 2020 that happened just six blocks away
Morgan could be seen hunched over in the back of a police car as he was taken away on Wednesday
The tragic events unfolded around 7 p.m. on Monday after the suspect's mother Lisa Fulmore, 40, returned to McDonald's on Fulton Street to complain about her fries being cold.
Morgan, who was on FaceTime with his mother during the confrontation, showed up at the eatery where he intervened, authorities said.
Fulmore claims that her son was acting in self-defense and that the McDonald's employee was still on the clock when he left the restaurant and went looking for her son following the spat.
Morgan and one of the employees, Webb, got into a dispute of their own inside the restaurant that at some point spilled outside and resulted in Morgan allegedly shooting the victim in the neck.
Relatives of Webb could be seen praying and in tears as they feared for their loved-ones life
Relatives can be seen consoling each other in grief outside the Brookdale hospital as 23-year-old Matthew Webb continues to fight for his life after being shot in the face on Monday night
Morgan had previously been arrested several times, including for grand larceny in 2019 and assault and theft of service in 2018, police sources said. He also has numerous sealed arrest cases.
Morgan is alleged to have killed 28-year-old Kevin Holloman after being shot three times in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Holloman was shot in front of an apartment building on Herkimer St. near Rochester Avenue. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
'For a while we tried to make an arrest and get this guy off the street,' police said. 'The guy should be behind bars, should be in jail.'
'I am relieved but it will never bring my brother back,' Gardenia Holloman, 32, Kevin Holloman's sister, told The Daily News. 'So it's bittersweet.'
'He was life of the party. All he did was dance and make you laugh, and he was loving and kind. He was a wonderful uncle to three little girls and he loved them.
'He was a mama's boy. Him and my mom were very close. My mother passed away right after him. She died of a broken heart. It messed my mother up badly. She couldn't take it.'
Morgan is alleged to have killed 28-year-old Kevin Holloman after being shot three times in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
The 2020 murder of Holloman happened just six blocks away from Monday's McDonald's shooting.
Morgan's mother told DailyMail.com that her son had left the store on Monday and that 10-15 minutes had passed before the McDonald's employee came over to her and asked where her son was before walking out of the store after him.
'He went looking for my son,' she said. 'The next thing you know, maybe like 10 minutes later, you hear a gunshot. So I ran to the door.'
Fulmore told the New York Post on Tuesday that she had spoken to her son after the shooting.
'I talked to my son with the cops. My son is just saying that he gotta do what he gotta do and the [victim] came after him and whatever
