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A man faces over 400 years in prison after a gun-wielding rampage was kicked off in a Burger King drive-thru because he tried to pay for his food with meth and was denied.
One can imagine the deal started out innocently enough. Just your average order from BK. Surely there’s no way this could end in disaster? Or could it? Who are we kidding, of course it could.
The scene was set in Aurora, Colorado on the backend of 2022 at Burger King – the chain famous for their onion rings and cardboard crowns. And 41-year old man, Eugene Robertson was the man that launched into shoot-out spree seemingly kicked off by a Whopper combo meal.
Let’s consider the thought process behind this for a second. He knew from the get that he wouldn’t be going into this oaying with standard currency for the goods. He had another plan, one that assumed a different kind of trade was in order and the employee accepting meth as payment would likely be A-ok with the surprise hood-winking.
And if that didn’t work, he had a weapon to entice the unaccommodating Burger King food attendant. So armed with plan A and (literally armed) with backup plan B, the odds were with the hungry marauder. Who wouldn’t be confident considering the level of ingenuity this guy possessed?
Shockingly enough, the workers refusal to comply set him off and he brought out plan B.
It didn’t end there though, chock full of good ideas, and wanting to use every last one of them…he next went to the 711 across the street. He brandished the gun again only this time he fired at an employee… and missed. It gets better. A bystander at 711 just so happened to have his own gun at the ready and like a tale straight out of the Wild West, fired at the instigator. An actual fire fight ensued.
And if you think it ends there, well then my friend, you would be wrong again. Somehow he extricated himself from the gunslinger meet-up and continued on his non-merry way.
He made his way to the apartment of an aquaintance and got it into his head that the gun would serve him well at a third location. His female friend refused to open the door once she sensed trouble had come-a-knockin’ so he shot willy-nilly style into the apartment.
The affidavit noted: “During his arrest, Eugene said he was not physically hurt, but his ‘feelings were hurt.”
Officers on the scene said that Robertson denied any wrongdoing, and was heard by witnesses to be muttering about God and holding a bible.
The only thing that can be said is that out of three shoot-outs – not one person was hurt, the only victim being a surveillance camera he shot to smithereens at 711. And perhaps food gone to waste at BK.
Some of the charges he collected include; 8 counts of attempted first-degree murder, reckless endangerment, possession of meth, and illegally discharging a firearm. He was convicted on April 8th and will potentially serve up to four hundred years in prison.
