This case is not going to dispel any stereotypes. A morbidly obese man tried to steal nearly $60 worth of hamburgers from a Sonic fast food restaurant in Nebraska. When that plan was foiled, he came back and shot 4 employees, killing 2 of them. It seems like he could have pawned his gun to buy the burgers, but when a guy like this is hungry, he’s hungry.
ABC News reports:
Authorities arrested a 23-year-old man in an attack at a Nebraska fast food restaurant in which two employees were shot and killed, two were wounded and officers responding to a report of a possible bomb inside a moving truck in the parking lot arrived to find the vehicle on fire.
Roberto Carlos Silva Jr., of Omaha, was booked into Sarpy County jail early Sunday on suspicion of first-degree murder and first-degree arson in Saturday night’s attack at a Sonic Drive-in restaurant in Bellevue, the Omaha World-Herald reported. Silva was being held without bond Sunday before making his initial court appearance.
In a news release early Sunday, Lt. Andy Jashinske said Bellevue police received a call at 9:23 p.m. Saturday about a possible bomb in a U-Haul truck parked outside of the restaurant in the Omaha suburb. A minute later, the call was updated to a possible shooting, he said.
Officers who arrived found the moving truck burning and four restaurant employees who had been shot. Two were sent to the University of Nebraska Medical Center for treatment, and the other two were declared dead at the scene, Jashinske said.
ABC also reports, “Jashinske said the investigation was in its ‘infancy,’ and he couldn’t explain what led to the shooting.”
Well, maybe this is a clue:
The attack came days after Silva was arrested outside of the restaurant after allegedly using someone else’s Sonic app account to buy a total of $57 worth of hamburgers and corn dogs in four separate purchases at that location, the World-Herald reported. Silva was released from jail on Thursday after posting 10% of his $1,500 bail.
Given all the information, I’ve put together a likely scenario: Silva was pissed that he got busted stealing burgers and corndogs and blamed Sonic employees for ruining his scam. He called in a bomb threat to get the employees to run outside, leaving all that tasty food unattended so he could grab it. When that didn’t work he set a U-Haul truck on fire hoping to sell the bomb scare. With no success he finally tried to take the food at gunpoint but his fat fingers caused the the firearm to discharge and he shot 4 people, killing 2.
Adding credence to my theory, Silva was still at the restaurant when police arrived. He was obviously too fat to run away after committing a food-related mass shooting. The report says he was arrested peacefully, but doesn’t mention if it was because he was stuffing his face with tater tots.
Getting back to him pawning his gun to buy fast food, police confiscated 3 from him after his first arrest and 4 more after the shooting. If he’s got money for 7 guns, he can afford $57 worth of fast food, which is apparently how much it takes to keep his raging hunger at bay.
This obese guy hunger-rage killing has set the Fat Lives Matter movement back 50 years. Michael Moore is pissed and plans on making a mockumentary about it a soon as he finishes his trough of fudge.
