Afeni Badu Muhammad was sent home early from two of her shifts at McDonald’s, and even posted about it on her Instagram. After accusing her manager of being a “bully,” the 26-year-old is accused of returning to the fast food franchise, wearing a mask, to do the unthinkable.
“I got sent home early yesterday. I got sent home early today by the same person. I’m telling you she’s a bully, the sh*t isn’t funny. She needs to understand that just because she’s a mother and got children, doesn’t mean she can come in this store disrespecting people, talking to people like everyone is beneath her. She has no respect,” Muhammad ranted in a clip from her car, posted on Tuesday (July 8). In a follow up video posted that same day, she added how the manager allegedly told her how she “broke my door in half and I had to pull my gun out on my kids.”
She added: “What the f*ck you telling me this for? Like you trying to make it seem like you big dog or some sh*t? […] That sh*t doesn’t scare me […] that sh*t doesn’t intimidate me at all.”
Just days after posting those videos, Muhammad was charged with first-degree murder of a single mother of six.
She’s accused of stabbing her manager Jennifer Harris to death with a kitchen knife shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday (July 10) at a 9 Mile Road McDonald’s. When police arrived, they discovered that Harris, 39, and Muhammad were involved in an argument, prompting the latter to be sent home early. After Muhammad “left for five minutes,” according to an employee who was working at the time of the alleged attack, a masked-Muhammad allegedly returned to the job site, fatally stabbing Harris multiple times.
“She started stabbing her and I ran for help and basically asked everybody like, ‘Help help’ or whatever,” a witness told WJBK. “I tried to stop her – it was no stopping her. She stabbed her everywhere.”
The alleged attack stopped thanks to a drive-thru customer, who is also a concealed to carry holder, who fired a warning shot. Muhammad, according to reports, attempted to flee, but didn’t get far. She was forced to sit down “in the parking lot next to a vehicle” with “the [customer’s] gun pointed at her,” per Edward Ballestero, another employee who was working when the alleged stabbing happened, until “police and all them rolled up.”
Harris children called her “the best mom anybody could ever ask for.” Harris’ daughter, Antonia Griffin, recalled how her mother “woke up every day and went to work for us. My mama died trying to take care of us.”
Harris had worked at the Eastpointe McDonald’s for 15 years.
Eastpointe Police Department’s Lieutenant Alex Holish called the ordeal “unexplainable.” He added: “Verbal disputes happen every day, and they should stay there. Verbal disputes happen, and they can mediate or talk to management later and try to settle the dispute like adults. No dispute should ever result in violence, especially a homicide.”
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