Police: honked horn leads to deadly crash at McDonald's drive-thru
A honked horn is the best guess as to what set people off in a McDonald's drive-thru, leading to a crash that killed a young woman Sunday in Nanakuli Hawaii. I was going to make a tasteless Toyota joke, but in the video, a Toyota SUV is shown. More details, video and link to original article follows....
Police have opened a murder investigation. They say the suspect was intoxicated when he entered the 24-hour drive-thru located in Nanakuli.
The suspect is identified as Albert Birmingham, a Punchbowl resident and the owner of a carpet and upholstery cleaning business.
"I don't know what he was doing in Nanakuli," Joey Pace, the suspect's roommate, said.
Pace was worried when his roommate, Albert "Bill" Birmingham, 36, failed to come home. Now he's stunned, after learning his friend was arrested in connection with a violent dispute at the McDonald's Restaurant in Nanakuli.
"I don't know how he hurt the girl," Pace said. "Did something happen or he snapped or something? But I don't know that side of the story, so I can't say anything."
Police say a 45-year-old man pulled out of the drive-thru, parked his car and confronted Birmingham, after Birmingham, who was next in line, honked his horn at him.
Investigators say a 20-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl, who were passengers in the first car, tried to break up the argument, and were hit by the suspect's SUV as he fled the scene.
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