2 McDonald's employees were reportedly shot in Oklahoma City after informing two customers the dining room was closed due to COVID-19

• Two McDonald's employees were shot in Oklahoma City after some potential customers reportedly became angry that they could not eat inside, KWTV, the local CBS affiliate, reported Wednesday night.
• A third employee suffered a head injury during the incident.
• All three workers were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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A pair of women angry that they could not dine inside an Oklahoma City McDonald's opened fire, shooting two employees on Wednesday, according to a local news report.

The Oklahoma City Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But according to Barry Mangold, a reporter with local CBS affiliate KWTV, the department confirmed that "two women became angry when staff told them the dining room was closed due to [COVID-19]."

A third employee hit her head during the incident. All three were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Mangold reported.

The incident comes after a security guard at a Family General in Michigan was shot and killed after reportedly telling a customer that they need to wear a mask.

"In 30 years of studying retail and crisis situations, we have never seen a situation of customers being so rude to hourly employees," Larry Barton, a professor of crisis management and public safety at the University of Central Florida, told Business Insider.

"It's demoralizing and, as we saw with the shooting of the security guard, a sometimes deadly environment," he said.

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