NYC McDonalds ax swinger Michael Palacios had just been ‘rejected’ by woman, witness says
A person who went on a scary ax-swinging rampage at a Manhattan McDonald’s on Saturday morning had flipped out after a younger girl “rejected” his advances, a witness mentioned.
Michael Palacios, 31, was arrested after cellphone video confirmed him grabbing an ax out of his backpack, destroying property and terrorizing prospects contained in the Delancey Avenue fast-food restaurant simply earlier than 2:30 a.m.
Ruben G, an Uber Eats supply man who witnessed the battle, informed The Submit the altercation started after Palacios was spurned by the unidentified girl.
“So principally he bought into an argument with a lady, after which the woman rejected him. She didn’t need to discuss to him. He saved going at her…that’s when the blokes she was with stepped in and so they began arguing. All of it led to that,” Ruben mentioned.
“He was attempting to speak to her and no matter. He was asking for her quantity, the place she was from, and I assume she felt a way. She replied again in a sure method that she didn’t need to give an excessive amount of data and he saved pushing on.”
Alcohol additionally performed a task within the would-be pickup artist’s failure to impress the girl, in response to Ruben.
“He was drunk. He was speaking to me; I can odor the liquor off him,” mentioned the Uber Eats driver, who was again on the Decrease East Aspect McDonald’s once more Saturday night time
Palacios is seen in video footage taking punches from three males earlier than he calmly retrieves the ax, smashes a floor-to-ceiling glass panel and hacks up a number of tables and partitions.
He then slaps one of many males he was beforehand preventing with out of his chair – and approaches a scared girl sitting at a desk to yell, “Don’t be afraid of me, be afraid of him!”
After the rampage, Palacios fled the scene on his bike however was picked up a short while later by police on close by Ludlow Avenue, the driving force mentioned.
“Bro, there was a glass right here and a glass there. He smashed each of them. He broke the desk in half with the ax.”
A employee on the eatery mentioned he had by no means seen the suspect earlier than, however he wasn’t shocked concerning the violence, which he mentioned is “widespread within the space.”
The employee, who declined to offer his title, mentioned the injury “was so much” and the scenario was above his paygrade.
“The upper ups can take care of that,” he quipped.
In the meantime, exterior the McDonald’s location on Saturday night time, a ranting girl kicked over a rubbish can.
Palacios, a Bronx resident, was charged with felony mischief and three counts of menacing and two counts of felony possession of a weapon.
When reached for remark by The Submit, the suspect initially declined to speak earlier than bragging concerning the hundreds of thousands of views the clip had generated on social media — the place he was being known as the “ax man.”
