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WERE UPSET WITH WHAT THEY GOT, OR IN THIS CASE, WHAT THEY DID NOT GET. IT WAS A BUSY LUNCH RUSH BUT TUESDAY NIGHT THIS WEDNESDAY, MCDONALD’S WAS THE SCENE OF A CRIME. >> THERE IS A FIGHT AT THE EAST 14TH MCDONALD’S BY EAST HIGH AND THE CAPITOL. >> HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING? >> I DON’T KNOW. THERE ARE TWO CARS. THEY’RE JUMPING ONE GUY. HANNAH: POLICE SAY THE CALL FIRST CAME IN AS A FIGHT BUT IT CHANGED, WHILE OFFICERS WERE ON THE WAY. >> THEY DROVE OFF. HE MUST HAVE GOT STABBED BECAUSE IT’S COMING OUT PRETTY BAD ON HIS LEG. >> AS THE OFFICERS WERE IN ROUTE, IT WAS UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE VICTIM HAD BEEN STABBED. HANNAH: DES MOINES POLICE SGT. PAUL PARIZEK SAYS IT ALL STARTED OVER AN ITEM MISSING FROM THEIR DRIVE-THROUGH ORDER. THE TWO CUSTOMERS WENT INSIDE TO COMPLAIN. THINGS ESCALATED WITH A 19-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE, THEY WERE REFUNDED THEIR MONEY AND THEN IT APPEARED, THEY HAD LEFT. >> THEY HAD THEIR FOOD AND THEIR MONEY, AND THEY STILL CAME BACK AND STABBED THE EMPLOYEE. HANNAH: POLICE SAY THAT EMPLOYEE WAS OUTSIDE WHEN THE TWO SUSPECTS RETURNED AND ASSAULTED HIM. >> DO YOU GUYS KNOW WHO THEY ARE? NO WE DO NOT. >> THEY’RE REGULARS. THEY COME HERE QUITE OFTEN, BUT WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE. HANNAH: POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE SUSPECTS AND SAY THE EMPLOYEE, WHO WAS STABBED IN THE LEG, IS EXPECTED TO BE OK. BUT NO MATTER WHAT, SGT. PARIZEK SAYS, A MESSED UP MCDONALD’S ORDER IS NOT WORTH ALL OF THIS. >> OF ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU CAN GET UPSET ABOUT AND ESCALATE TO THIS LEVEL, FAST FOOD ISN’T ONE OF THEM. HANNAH: WE JUST RECEIVED A STATEMENT FROM MCDONALD’S IS AFTERNOON. THEY SAY OUR THOUGHTS AND , PRAYERS ARE WITH THE EMPLOYEE INVOLVED IN THIS DISTURBING INCIDENT. WE HAVE PROVIDED SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND WE’RE FULLY COOPERATING WITH THEIR INVESTIGATION AS THEY WO TO APPREHEND THESE INDIVIDUALS. JUST ONE MORE TIME, HERE ARE THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS WE JUST RECEIVED IN THE LAST 20 MINUTE, THE TWO SUSPECTS CAUGHT ON SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE. THE POLICE ARE ASKING ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE