Woman Dies In Drive-Through Assault

HONOLULU -- Police said a 36-year-old driver is suspected of running over and killing a woman with his sport utility vehicle in a McDonald's drive-through lane early Sunday morning, KITV-TV in Honolulu reported.

It happened at about 3 a.m., police said. The restaurant's drive-through remained closed Sunday.

McDonald's employees said the incident started with an impatient customer in an SUV.

"Tooting his horn, causing trouble," McDonald's employee Manu Afong said.

Police said the SUV was behind a car at the drive-through window. The occupants of the car received their food, drove out and parked. The man driving the car and two women got out and confronted the driver behind them.

Witnesses said the driver of the SUV ran over one of the women and left skid marks behind.

"First there was the front tires, it was an SUV. Stood over her for a while, then ran over her a second time with the back tires," Afong said. "He then took off."

Paramedics rushed the woman in her 20s to the Queen's Medical Center, where she died.

McDonald's employees and witnesses called 911 and gave police a description of the SUV.

Police caught up with a 36-year-old man at a house, though they said he does not live there.

McDonald's employees were stunned over the woman's death. They said the entire incident was avoidable and unnecessary.

"Obviously, this guy just had no patience," Afong said. "It does make me sad. I mean, this girl was too young for it. It was uncalled for."

McDonald's managers gave police several videotapes from various security cameras around the drive-through. Employees were certain at least one of the cameras captured the incident.

They expressed concern about intoxicated and impatient customers in the early-morning hours.

"We get that a lot every night," Afong said. "Every night, in the middle of the night, you know, we have a lot of people who come in our drive-throughs who are drunk."