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March 28, 2024

Woman gets 3 to 7 years for shooting over bacon-less burger

Shaneka Monique Torres

AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Chris Clark

Shaneka Monique Torres leaves the courtroom with her attorney John Beason after being found guilty on all charges related to her shooting a gun into a McDonald’s when she failed to get bacon on her burger, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, in Grand Rapids, Mich. The jury deliberated about an hour before reaching the verdict.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Michigan woman has been sentenced to three to seven years in prison for opening fire at a McDonald's restaurant after workers twice failed to put bacon on her burgers.

Authorities say 30-year-old Shaneka Torres became angry in February 2014 when the first burger she ordered at the restaurant's drive-up station was missing bacon. She was offered a free meal, but bacon also wasn't added to a second burger order.

Police say she fired a shot through the restaurant. No one was injured.

A Kent County Circuit Court jury convicted her March 25. Judge Paul Sullivan on Tuesday sentenced her to one to five years for shooting at a building, plus two years for possessing a firearm during a felony.

Torres says she's sorry "but it's over and done with."

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