The witness, who identified himself as Larry, told the BBC he and “five or six” of his friends were at the McDonald’s where Mangione was caught by authorities. He described briefly seeing the alleged shooter and thinking nothing of it, even when his friend joked that he looked like the suspect.
“The guy came in through the door, and i didn’t really look at him. I thought everybody was kidding around. Well, one guy said, ‘that looks like the shooter from New York.’ Well then, we laughed and I guess he placed his order and we just went about our business. But we were kidding about it. They were like, ‘well, wouldn’t that be something,’ you know?” he said.
“I thought he was kidding. You know what I mean?” the witness said outside the location.
A female employee called 911 over Mangione’s resemblance to photos of the suspected shooter released by police and plastered across the news. Larry told Fox News Digital he spoke to the McDonald’s worker after Mangione was arrested to ask if he was there at the same time, and she said their joking prompted her to make the call.
“She goes, ‘Actually, you and your friends and all were making a joke almost and saying, you know …,’” Larry said. “And that’s pretty much about it.”
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