DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — One person is being treated for a gunshot wound after an argument led to a shooting at a McDonald's restaurant in DeKalb County Monday afternoon, according to DeKalb Police.
Authorities responded to the shooting at the McDonald's located on Wesley Chapel Road at I-20 in Decatur.
DeKalb County Police said one person was shot and he was taken to the hospital for treatment.
"It appears that at this time, a dispute between several people led to gunfire. No one is in custody at this time," DeKalb Police said.
11Alive had a crew at the scene, where one of the fast-food restaurant's windows was shattered. There were also about 20 evidence markers in the McDonald's parking lot, as investigators worked to process the scene and determine what led up to the shooting.
Witnesses said around 1:30 p.m. at least three customers were involved in some sort of argument inside the McDonald's at the counter. A few minutes later, one of the customers went outside into the parking lot and, according to witnesses, started shooting into the fast-food restaurant at one of the people they were arguing with. Witnesses believed that that person may have returned fire.
At least one of the rounds went through the window and hit a customer, possibly an innocent bystander, who was inside McDonald's.
Bobby Banks, who works next door at a car wash and at a Waffle House restaurant nearby, said he's a frequent customer at that McDonald's and called the shooting "senseless violence over nothing."
"Things can blow up just by the smallest thing, like a seed," he said. "To say why it happened, I can't say why it happened, anything small is likely to blow up, in this time that we're in, now. I hate that it happened and it shouldn't have. This should be an eye-opener."
11Alive received the following statement from the owner of the McDonald's:
The safety of our crew and customers is our top priority. We are cooperating with the DeKalb County Police Department and because this is an open police investigation, we ask that all questions be directed to local law enforcement.
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