A man who went on a scary ax-swinging rampage at a Manhattan McDonald’s on Friday morning had flipped out after a young woman rejected his advances.
Michael Palacios, 31, was arrested after cellphone video showed him grabbing an ax out of his backpack, destroying property and terrorizing customers inside the Delancey Street fast-food restaurant just before 2:30 a.m.
Ruben G, an Uber Eats delivery man who witnessed the fight, said the altercation began after Palacios was spurned by the unidentified woman.
“So basically he got into an argument with a girl, and then the girl rejected him. She didn’t want to talk to him. He kept going at her…that’s when the guys she was with stepped in and they started arguing. It all led to that,” Ruben said. “He was trying to talk to her and whatever. He was asking for her number, where she was from, and I guess she felt some way. She replied back in a certain manner that she didn’t want to give too much info and he kept pushing on.”
Alcohol seemed to be a huge contributing factor in the would-be pickup artist’s failure to impress the woman.
“He was drunk. He was talking to me; I can smell the liquor off him,” said the Uber Eats driver, who was back at the Lower East Side McDonald’s again Saturday night
Palacios is seen in video footage taking punches from three men before he calmly retrieves the ax, smashes a floor-to-ceiling glass panel and hacks up several tables and walls.
He then slaps one of the men he was previously fighting with out of his chair and approaches a scared woman sitting at a table to yell, “Don’t be afraid of me, be afraid of him!”
After Palacios rampage seemed to be teetering to a halt, he fled the scene on his bike, but was soon picked up by police on Ludlow Street.
“Bro, there was a glass here and a glass there. He smashed both of them. He broke the table in half with the ax,” said the Uber Eats driver.
A worker at McDonalds said he had never seen the suspect before, but he wasn’t shocked about the violence, which he said is common in the area.
The worker, who declined to give his name, said the damage was a lot and the situation was above his paygrade. “The higher ups can deal with that,” he quipped.
Palacios, a Bronx resident, was charged with criminal mischief and three counts of menacing and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
I would of loved to ventilate that thug. Two in the coconut, 2 in the torso. Kick him in the face on the way out for good measure!
I’m Sicilian and Irish, no problem dealing with trash.
Another Black victim running around with a deadly weapon trying to hurt and kill, thank god the police didn’t shoot him or the cities would be burning and being looted.
Now that we know who the aggressor actually was . And the men were simply trying to defend a girl from a drunken maniac . The MSM will drop this story . as if it didn’t happen . BTW it was a hatchet not an axe there is a difference . But both can kill you very fast . And with a single blow . Also Hatchet man says he is a good person . And i say you weren’t that person when you went after the people just trying to stop you from scaring the girl .
I would have shot him where he stood and I’d be hauled off to jail.
Whitey murders ax swinging American negro not bothering anyone except the white girl he was trying to hook up with. Drunken scumbag trying to kill people.
Yes, plugged him & I’d do it again! I’m tired of kissing black ass.
Take your white ass to Wyoming or North/South Dakota and you won’t have to worry about it. Whitey crackah
Fuck yuou Susan yoou race bating whore, you’ll be next anyway, and no one will help your dirtyn ass.