Police in North Carolina said they arrested a McDonald’s worker Monday after the male employee shot and killed a woman who started an argument inside the restaurant.

Sam Antwan Ivey, 35, of Hendersonville, was charged with second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon in the deadly shooting of 30-year-old Jacklyn Marie Reed of Johnson City, Tennessee.

Authorities said the incident began when Ms. Reed and another woman argued at a bus stop near the McDonald’s just before 11 a.m.

The argument spilled over into the fast food restaurant when Ms. Reed followed the woman inside the McDonald’s, police said, prompting the manager to come out and separate the two.

Police said Ms. Reed soon was confronted by the manager and a male employee.  

“During the disturbance, the victim reached out and touched the male restaurant employee, who shot the victim with a concealed handgun,” Hendersonville police said in a release. “The male employee fled the scene in his vehicle.”

A school resource officer at nearby Edneyville Elementary School was aware of the McDonald’s shooting and knew that the suspect had a child who attended the school, according to police.

The SRO arrested Ivey in the school’s parking lot without incident. The school was placed on a brief lockdown in anticipation of Ivey’s arrival, police said.

• Matt Delaney can be reached at mdelaney@washingtontimes.com.