Dead woman found inside McDonald’s in Alabama

Police are investigating the death of a woman in a McDonald’s restaurant in Montgomery Alabama, according to local reports.

Officers responded to a restaurant on the 2700 block of Taylor Road, to the southeast of the city center, at around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, where the woman was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead, news station WSFA 12 reported on Wednesday, citing Montgomery Police Department spokesperson Major Saba Coleman.

WSFA 12 reported that its own news crews had attended the scene and confirmed the presence of a body inside the McDonald’s restaurant located on that block. It said the cause of death had not been released.

No further information has so far been released due to the ongoing investigation, police reportedly said.

Newsweek reached out to the Montgomery Police Department and McDonald’s via email for comment on Wednesday.

The McDonald’s restaurant identified by WSFA 12 as the location of the recent death in Montgomery sits just off the junction of Taylor Road and Vaughn Road, near Route 85 running toward the center of the city.

With 13,444 stores across the U.S., according to Statista figures, local reports of fatal incidents occurring in McDonald’s restaurants can appear with relative regularity.

In early August, Matthew Webb, a 23-year-old McDonald’s worker was shot in the neck after an argument with a customer escalated, and later died of his wound, NBC News reported, noting that police were treating the incident as a homicide.

It reported that a verbal argument with a woman spilled out onto the street outside the restaurant and that the female customer’s 20-year-old son then pulled a gun.

In May, Kentavious White entered a McDonald’s restaurant in Moultrie, Georgia, and fatally shot his manager, Amia Smith, after killing two of his relatives and before taking his own life, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said following the incident.

USA Today identified the relatives as White’s 50-year-old mother and 74-year-old grandmother. A local coroner told the newspaper that it was unclear what prompted the shootings.

In early April, a man was found unresponsive in one of the chain’s restaurants in Jacksonville, Florida, and was later pronounced dead in a hospital, the Florida Times-Union reported.

Update 8/16/23, 8:53 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.