California man sues McDonald's after homeless man accused of attacking wife in drive-thru

A California widower is suing McDonald’s, alleging employees stood by and refused to telephone 911 arsenic a vagrant fatally attacked his woman portion the mates waited successful a drive-thru line.

Jose Juan Rangel filed the suit past week successful Los Angeles Superior Court, Law & Crime reported. The suit claimed a antheral described arsenic a "known vagrant" approached vehicles and past attacked the mates successful the drive-thru astatine a Boyle Heights edifice successful March 2024.

Rangel and his wife, 58-year-old Maria Vargas Luna, were successful their car waiting for nutrient erstwhile Charles Cornelius Green Jr. allegedly approached and began assaulting Rangel done the driver-side window. The ailment says Rangel’s wife, who was partially unsighted and trying to help, was pushed to the crushed and suffered terrible caput trauma.

The household antecedently told Fox News that Vargas Luna past suffered a bosom onslaught while being rushed to the hospital.

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Maria Vargas Luna suffered 2 bosom attacks aft trying to assistance her hubby erstwhile the brace were assaulted astatine a McDonald's successful Los Angeles successful March 2024, her household said. ('Fox & Friends First' screengrab)

She was hospitalized and placed connected beingness enactment for respective months, though yet died from her injuries, according to the lawsuit.

"We're each devastated due to the fact that my begetter is beside himself, and helium says helium doesn't privation to support surviving without her due to the fact that she was his world," Rangel’s daughter, Veronica Rangel, told "Fox & Friends First" in May 2024 erstwhile Vargas Luna was inactive connected beingness support. "They've been joined for 30 years, and each she did was springiness up her beingness trying to support him, and my dada feels guilty. He feels sad. He feels angry. He feels similar he's losing his beingness partner, his champion friend, for thing that should ne'er person happened."

The alleged onslaught happened successful the drive-thru of a McDonald's successful Boyle Heights vicinity of Los Angeles successful March 2024. (KTTTV)

The suit accuses McDonald’s Corp., McDonald’s Restaurants of California Inc., McDonald’s USA LLC and the franchise operators of failing to enactment contempt disposable informing signs of danger. It alleges employees watched Green loiter and attack cars successful the drive-thru for astatine slightest 10 minutes and past failed to telephone 911 oregon intervene arsenic the battle unfolded.

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 "These disposable informing signs required defendants to instrumentality protective action, but they did nothing," the ailment says. "Defendants’ nonaccomplishment to … admit the information and respond earlier the battle occurred straight contributed to the injuries and death."

The suit alleges that McDonald’s employees failed to telephone 911 oregon intervene arsenic the battle unfolded. (iStock)

Rangel's attorneys accidental the determination has a agelong past of constabulary calls for convulsive and transgression behavior, including battle and trespassing, which they accidental enactment McDonald’s connected announcement of the risk. The ailment asserts claims including wrongful death, negligence and premises liability, and seeks compensatory and different damages.

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Green was initially charged with felony and misdemeanor battery, but prosecutors aboriginal dropped the superior count, saying surveillance video suggested Vargas Luna’s autumn was accidental, FOX11 Los Angeles reported.

Green was released connected his ain recognizance, and the presumption of immoderate misdemeanor charges is unclear.