A security guard working inside a Hyattsville McDonald’s has been charged with murder after police say he shot a man during a fight Saturday night.
Police say the security guard initiated the fight after the man refused to leave the restaurant, hitting the unarmed man with a baton before shooting him once in the chest.
It all began after police say employees of the McDonald’s in the 2300 block of University Boulevard asked a man to leave.
The charging document filed in court says the man, 45-year-old Ricardo Clemons Jr., was a regular in the McDonald’s and “was often asked to leave due to loitering.”
At 8:25 p.m. Saturday, Prince George’s County police say the security guard, 54-year-old Murwanashyaka Francois, asked Clemons to leave and when he refused, “deployed pepper spray in the decedent’s face.”
According to a court document filed in the case, five minutes after the security guard used pepper spray on Clemons, the two got into a battle, with the security guard pulling out a baton and striking Clemons several times. This was all captured on video, according to the document. The two then exchanged blows before the security guard pulled out his gun and fired once.
Clemons was pronounced dead at the scene.