A witness said a man told his son to fire the gun, police said.
On Monday afternoon, the man was going through the drive-thru at the McDonald’s at 400 West and 7200 South in Midvale when he apparently received the wrong order. He then brandished a firearm at McDonald’s employees, said Sgt. Melody Cutler with the Unified Police Department.
McDonald’s employees told the man that they were going to fix his order, and asked him to pull around to the front of the building, Cutler said. They then called 911. When police arrived, the man was sitting in his car. Officers ordered him several times to get out of the vehicle, Cutler said, but the man didn’t comply. Police were able to pull the man from the car, but then an officer noticed that a gun was sticking out of an open door of the vehicle.
The officer pushed the gun away, and then the gun went off, burning the officer’s arm as it did so, Cutler said. The car’s tinted windows made it difficult to see inside, but the officer saw that the person who had pulled the trigger was a 4-year-old boy. The officer yelled “Kid! Kid! Kid!” to alert the other officers at the scene, “preventing a horrific tragedy,” Cutler said. A 3-year-old girl was also in the backseat.A witness told police that the man had instructed his son to pull the trigger.
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