An 18-year-old man shot in the head in a skirmish outside a Queens McDonald’s has died — and a teen his same age has been nabbed for killing him, cops said Wednesday.
Akim Cisse was taken to Long Island Jewish Medical Center by private means after being shot in the head about 11:15 p.m. Friday outside a McDonald’s in Springfield Gardens. He died the next day, police said Wednesday.
Rayvon Philip, also 18, was arrested Wednesday afternoon for murder and weapon possession.
It remains unclear what sparked the fight between Philip and Cisse that led to the deadly shooting.
Cisse was about half a mile from home when he was shot, according to cops. The suspect, like Cisse, lives in Springfield Gardens, police say.
Philip was awaiting arraignment in Queens Criminal Court Thursday.
A 43-year-old cashier at the fast food joint on South Conduit Ave. near 222nd St. said she heard a commotion by the bathroom shortly before police arrived.
“I was in the office with my general manager. We saw like two kids running around and we thought they was gonna fight,” she said. “So my general manager got one of the guys from the kitchen to ask him to go with her because we thought we would have to break up a fight. But it was nothing.”
“Like 10 minutes later the police came and said that somebody got shot like outside on the parking lot,” she added. “It is just sad cause they’re teenagers. That’s the part that breaks me, like they’re teenagers.”
