Police: Customer shoots St. Louis KFC employee over no corn

ST. LOUIS – A KFC employee in St. Louis is hospitalized in critical but stable condition after a customer shot him because he was upset that the restaurant had run out of corn, police said.

Investigators said the man tried to place an order in the restaurant’s drivethru lane on Monday. He became upset and threatened employees when he was told the business was out of corn, police said.

The man had a handgun when he drove up to the drive-thru window. A 25-year-old employee who went outside to talk to the driver returned to the restaurant and said he had been shot, police said.

The driver fled and had not been arrested as of Tuesday afternoon.