Sam Antwan Ivey (Henderson County Detention Center) and the McDonald’s where Jacklyn Marie Reed was fatally shot (YouTube: WXLV screenshot)
A 35-year-old McDonald’s employee in North Carolina was arrested this week after he allegedly shot and killed a 30-year-old woman inside the fast food restaurant. Sam Antwan Ivey was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the slaying of Jacklyn Marie Reed, authorities announced.
According to a press release from the Hendersonville Police Department, HPD officers at about 10:54 a.m. on Oct. 9 responded to a call at a McDonald’s restaurant located in the 1900 block of Four Seasons Boulevard in regard to an adult female being fatally shot. The restaurant is located about 100 miles west of Charlotte.
Upon arriving at the address, first responders located the victim — later identified as Reed — who appeared to be suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Medical personnel pronounced her dead at the scene.
Detectives investigating the case soon learned that prior to the shooting, the victim and another adult female had gotten into an argument at a bus stop located at the street corner of the McDonald’s restaurant. Following the altercation, the other female “retreated” into the restaurant in an effort to “separate herself from the victim.”
However, police say the victim followed the other woman into the McDonald’s and the two continued to quarrel, leading a restaurant manager to separate the two.
The victim then left the McDonald’s but returned a short time later. The manager and another male employee — later identified as Ivey — met the victim as she reentered. During the ensuing “disturbance,” police say that the victim “reached out and touched the male restaurant employee, who shot the victim with a concealed handgun.”
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“She’s standing in the doorway and that’s where she’s met by the manager and the shooter,” Hendersonville Police Chief Blair Myhand said in an interview with Winston-Salem ABC affiliate WXLV-TV. “And the shooter just, very matter-of-factly pulls a gun very quickly and shoots her once in the dead center of the chest.”
Following the shooting, the male employee fled the scene in his car and headed to pick up his son at school, police said.
According to police, a school resource deputy assigned to Edneyville Elementary School learned about the shooting and recognized that Ivey had a child who was a student at the school. The resource officer then waited for Ivey to show up at the campus to pick up the child, the resource officer quickly took him into custody in the school parking lot.
“The school immediately went into Secure holding according to their Standard Response Protocol and the suspect was taken into custody without incident,” police wrote in the release. “Detectives do not believe the suspect intended harm at the school.”
Chief Myhand said investigators at this point were “not really sure” why Ivey allegedly reacted so violently to the victim but said that in his opinion, video of the shooting shows that it was a “clear case of homicide” and not self-defense. He also noted that Reed had been the subject of several disturbance calls since the previous Friday due to “erratic behavior,” but did not elaborate.
Ivey is currently being held at the Henderson County Detention Center without bond.
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